"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." ― James A. Baldwin Topic(s): History Tags: history, people, trapped More From James A. Baldwin "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all." More In History "Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another."― Dick Gregory "Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."― George Wald "Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get."― Kinky Friedman