I’m a staunch believer that we are in an earth cycle. There’s no question the planet is changing, and the fact that the Mayans had an end date and their history talks of change, I find that fascinating.
When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.
I didn’t learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
I don’t think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
History will dictate what my legacy is. And ‘maverick’ is fine, because I am.
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
But Tottenham is pure football and pure people… nice, warm people. That’s why I like Tottenham. And everybody who comes to the stadium can smell the history.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.
I’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different lesson.
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It’s kind of like religion – once you’ve written the Bible, that’s it, move on.
Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
It’s hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.
I’m mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I’m not just a rapper now, I’m in history now.
I believe in God. I believe that He’s real and I believe He has control over a lot of things and I think throughout history there has been a lot of countries that have turned their back on Him and the result is not great.
