Quotes About History

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

Me and Master P go way back.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

I've main-evented the most matches in NXT history.

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

Your mates are the people who have been around 10 years or more.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.

I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.

Vince McMahon could care less about the ECW legacy.

It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed.

Records are meant to be broken, I guess.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

I cannot write history unless I travel to the places where it happened. I spent a lot of time walking around the Eastern Mediterranean, going to all the shrines that Socrates would have worshiped at, going to all the battlefields that he fought on.

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.

The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

I want to fight legends before I retire.