Malcolm X Quotes

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

History is simply man’s desperate bid to give substance to his most visionary dreams.

History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

History is the memory of things said and done.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.