“The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have ...” — David Levering Lewis Quote

“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.”

“There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'”

“Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.”

“It's unbelievable what I discovered within Hackney. Just meeting my old mates, but also meeting historians that knew everything about it.”

“There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know.”