“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”— Chinua Achebe
“Architecture is not a science. It is a great historical procession. It is an art, a game of forms and volumes.”— Alvar Aalto
“One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”— Charles A. Beard
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”— Chinua Achebe
“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”— Andrew J. Bacevich
“A people with a shrinking span of attention will quite simply be unable to play a great part in history.”— Andrew J. Bacevich
“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. That is the ruling class's game.”— Eugene V. Debs
“'Roots' was a great thing for all of us. I think it made people think about their own family and their own heritage.”— John Amos
“The Negro has been uprooted from his ancestral soil and has been transplanted to a new world where he has been forced to learn a new language and new ways of life.”— E. Franklin Frazier