You don't hate history, you hate the way it was ta...

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.