Hidden Histories Quotes

I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some weight to the hidden private life of ordinary people

All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about.

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to our understanding of history - in unprepossessing places: a Victorian sewer system; a Cold War bunker; derelict hospitals.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.