Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you God.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

I did a book in 1996 an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Our liberal New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.