No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
A lot of them want to come and play for Manchester United. They want to play because Alex has a record of giving youth a chance and we have the history and heritage of Manchester United.