facing the past Quotes

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

I think only now am I at the age where I've forgiven the past enough to say, 'You know what? Slavery was there. Let's talk about it in ways that will help us face tomorrow.

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn't cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been.

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

Neverland is a place where you don't grow up, then you have to confront your past.

And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.