You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you ha…

- Adele Logan Alexander

It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding - to believe that women's co…

- Adele Logan Alexander

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been pr…

- Adele Logan Alexander

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

- Adele Logan Alexander

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all…

- Adele Logan Alexander

I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those storie…

- Adele Logan Alexander

When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men. Women have more ofte…

- Adele Logan Alexander

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

- Adele Logan Alexander