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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it is this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they are black, can not and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

When I am not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I am not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I am reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women is history.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

But whenever history is in the making, there is some kind of intangible feeling.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It is like you are touching the essence, the very substance of life.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I feel like I am part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, I have got to do a better job.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That is the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We are in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that is been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after Bad Girls, nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with Off The Wall.