Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

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.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

History is more or less bunk.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

I think you can learn from history.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Most of us get our history through story.

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.