History : (124) " Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past. " - Antony Beevor " The NBA is my history. " - Penny Hardaway " Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music. " - Christian Scott " Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. " - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar " I don’t want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. " - Helmut Kohl " Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can’t be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him. " - Edmund Morgan " I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother’s family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I’m from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life. " - Marcus Samuelsson " Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can’t be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him. " - Edmund Morgan " I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. " - Zoe Saldana " I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history. " - Ron Stallworth