“The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.”– Jessamyn West Related Quotes “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”– Morgan Freeman “Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.”– Chinua Achebe “President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.”– Mitt Romney