In history as in human life regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Wherever you go in the history of America there have been Black people making contributions but their contributions have been obscured lost buried.

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that he is a centrist just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

We can't understand when we're pregnant or when our siblings are expecting how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood genes humor. It means we were actually here on Earth for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids only with children.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you God.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

I did a book in 1996 an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Our liberal New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

My generation of bossy confident baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan unknown before her 1963 book or by Gloria Steinem whose political activism as even the Lifetime profile admitted did not begin until 1969.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

All objects all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!