Lost Legacy Quotes

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

To speak about yourself, you must first be able to assemble a sense of origin. For descendants of slaves, this has proved one of the most precious losses of self-knowledge we've endured.

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

And when you started looking into Roger East, it was almost like he had disappeared from history.

It is the melancholy fate of all young legends to becoming better known for the things they did to exploit fame than the things that made them famous in the first place.

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.