"To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you’re not aware of that when you’re a child, the whole tradition is lost."
― Joyce Carol Oates
Topic(s):
History
More From Joyce Carol Oates
- "Anyone who teaches knows that you don’t really experience a text until you’ve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class."
- "Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
- "If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
More In History
- "I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones."― Puff Daddy
- "History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without."― Howard Nemerov
- "In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story."― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar