Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. - Cornel West

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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - JAMES BALDWIN

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Failure is impossible.

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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Life moves fast. As much as you can, learn from your history, you have to move forward.

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We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We learn from history that we don't learn from history! ― Desmond Tutu

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We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.

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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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