Oral Histories

Famous quotes containing the words oral and/or histories:

“We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write, on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)