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The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more co

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates

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Its very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, youve got it half-made. I mean intellectually. – V. S. Naipaul

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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. – David Hockney

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