Collective Memory famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
-- Ralph Davis -
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.
-- Gilles Peress -
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.
-- Kwame Dawes