Quotes About Inspiration

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.