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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Audre Lorde
History
Struggle
Generation
Will
Invent
Color
Over
Another
Exist
Again
Themselves
Lesbians
Why
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
Audrey Meadows
Good
History
Woman
World
Made
Big
Good Friends
Meeting
Later
Mink
Touch
Him
Became
Up
Friends
Any
Movie
Moments
Initial
World History
Her
Right
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
Auguste Comte
History
Science
Know
Understand
Necessary
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Augustine Birrell
Great
History
We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic our forefathers created, or will we allow it to be annihilated by those who hate America, its history, and all it stands for?
Augustus Sol Invictus
History
Age
Hate
Will
Our
Those
Enter
Restore
Allow
New
New Age
Forefathers
Answered
Question
America
American
American History
Republic
Created
Who
Stands
Now
History is always changing.
Aung San Suu Kyi
History
Changing
Always
If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.
Austan Goolsbee
History
Obligations
Our
Would
Would-Be
Unprecedented
Impact
Totally
Catastrophic
Economy
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Hit
American
Essentially
American History
Which
Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.
Ava DuVernay
History
Allergic
Lesson
Medicine
Dramas
Those
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Obligatory
Feel
Like
Particularly
Gosh
Because
Around
Historical
Often
Oh
Just
Movement
Really
Even
Thing
Watch
Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.
Ava DuVernay
Time
History
Culture
Black
Own
Holding
White
Savior
Through
Identity
Dealing
Passed
Issues
Hand
Person
Race
I understand and appreciate and respect that any time a barrier is broken or history is made, people want to celebrate it and mark it as progress.
Ayanna Pressley
Time
Broken
History
Respect
Celebrate
People
Progress
Made
Mark
Understand
Any
Want
Barrier
Appreciate
Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
Azzedine Alaia
Fashion
History
Remember
Will
No-One
Anna
The History Of
Who
I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles.
Azzedine Alaia
History
France
Arabic
Entire
Kings
Knew
Along
Also
French
Learned
Versailles
Fascinated
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
B. B. King
Saying
Nature
Me
History
You
Better
Think
Books
Pleases
Head
Nobody
Learn
Got
Still
Want
Shoulders
Here
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
B. F. Skinner
Myself
Me
History
Some
Cost
Gene
Something
Fact
Genetics
Importance
Operated
Because
Altruism
Altruistic
However
Deny
Children
Might
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
Balthazar Getty
Great
History
Cinema
Bad
Bad Guys
Guys
Likable
Even
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai
Life
Death
History
National
Our
Division
Hour
Decisive
Means
Union
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich
History
Natural
Clever
Favors
Only
Selection
Operated
Human
Human History
Natural Selection
Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
Barbara G. Walker
Religion
History
People
Worst
Kindly
More
Both
Tends
Cruelest
True
Supported
Generous
Most
Makes
Were
Vicious
Loving
Really
Wars
Disprove
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Barbara Goldsmith
Art
History
Throughout
Taken
Question
Legitimate
Decide
Cannot
Themselves
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
Barbara Kruger
History
Book
Events
Every
Think
Statement
Circumstances
Follows
Rendition
History Book
Author
So-Called
Should
Film
Biography
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
History
Science
Thought
Books
Crippled
Silent
Civilization
Without
Dumb
Literature
Standstill
Speculation
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Barney Frank
Great
History
You
People
Encouragement
Humanities
Say
Would
Would-Be
Gingrich
About
Could
He
Study
Study History
Supporters
Because
Sciences
Historian
American
May
Want
American History
Social
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Who
Social Sciences
Nicest
Now
Thing
Profitable
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
Barney Frank
Gay
History
Rights
First
Country
Gay Rights
Massachusetts
Legislature
Bill
I'm here to leave my mark in WWE history.
Baron Corbin
History
Mark
WWE
Leave
Here
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen
Day
History
Every Day
Every
Say
Destined
Seems
More
Economic
Disastrous
Likely
Replay
Doomed
Should
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
Barry Hannah
Day
History
Man
Book
About
Only
He
Retired
Read
Insurance
Bank
After
Successful
Dad
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