#historical

People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimson and squealing like it just depart heaven to come to hell, another place of red. Not when the midwife know that the mother shed too much blood, and she who don't reach fourteen birthday yet speak curse 'pon the chile and the papa, and then she drop down dead like old horse. Not when blood spurt from the skin, on spring from the axe, the cat-o'-nine, the whip, the cane and the blackjack and every day in slave life is a day that colour red. It soon come to pass when red no different from white or blue or black or nothing. Two black legs spread wide and mother mouth screaming. A black baby wiggling in blood on the floor with skin darker than midnight but the greenest eyes anybody ever done seen. I goin' call her Lilith. You an call her what they call her. ↗

— Marlon James

#blood #color #historical-fiction #metaphor #red

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#concern #court #crimes #criminal #different

Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#monarchy #women #men

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. ↗

— Roger Caras

#greatest #historical #museums #others #our

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia. ↗

— Evo Morales

#access #again #agreed #back #bolivia

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#beyond #borders #country #courts #historically

All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#certain #certain way #exploited #export #historical

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#boardwalk #come #day #discovered #first

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#biographies #emergence #fully #gap #historical

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#definitive #filtered #historical #into #kind