It's not about the past; it's about knowing your h... -Raoul Peck

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

Raoul Peck Quotes to Explore

You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don't have any space left ...

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what t...

When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but...

We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one mur...

That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing els...

History Quotes to Explore

We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...

I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of ...

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...

I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....

Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the com...

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...