“Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is th...” — David Levering Lewis Quote

“Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.”

“I came into my teens unaware that most Americans, blacks as well as whites, were ignorant of the main facts of Negro history. And so it was the facts of other histories that I found most intriguing. I fell into a U.S. history major by chance late in my second year at Fisk University.”

“The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about.”

“I'm a tough manager. I question almost every assumption in what are hopefully pragmatic ways. The more you question, the more you learn and the more the person you are questioning learns.”

“I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.”

“For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.”