Quotes About History

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

Alabama has a rich history.

I hope that as Alabama continues to make progress, we remember the lessons of history.

I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it.

I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.

I was in the band for the first six albums.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

I like American history.

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.

African-American history is American history.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time in American music history.

American music culture is black culture.

I don't think there is much American music.

I was born in Amsterdam.

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

All of our ancestors came from somewhere.

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

I'm getting quite into ancient barrows and the like these days.