"天作孽，猶可違；自作孽，不可活。"

"Like many West Indians of my generation, I have been reading C. L. R. James’s Black Jacobins over and over for many y…"

"I will a tale to thee rehearse, a tale of import mighty; And if attention you do lend, I hope the tale will please yo…"

"Well, at the time that I am telling you about, in those days the lord of Vlachia and of all Hellas, of Arta and Yanni…"

"Human history is a brief spot in space, and its first lesson is modesty."

"History is subject to geology."

"Generations of men establish a growing mastery over the earth, but they are destined to become fossils in its soil."

"Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidence and biase…"

"The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of s…"