Quotes About History

My first date was with Endeavour, and my last date is going to be with Endeavour, as far as space shuttles are concerned.

When I decided to become a bodybuilder, I actually marked down a date. It was Oct. 8, 2002. The rest is pretty much history. It was an amazing feeling to know that I had the potential to become a champion.

When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the work of the century.

It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

There are no Dave Marrs anymore.

I believe in the Camp David accords.

Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.

Bahrain is very dear to me.

For me, they are still my dear friends, not the Beatles.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.