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Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There is so much more to the story.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life was not normal. I did not have to go to school, so I did not. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I am almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I am crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that is a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

History takes time. History makes memory.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we are on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there is only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.