Quotes About Identity

Don't let your history hinder you from your destiny... you are only held back by yourself! You aren't what they say you were, you are who God says you are!!

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.