We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Everyone has a past.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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