The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.