Distorted History Quotes

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.