Mickalene Thomas

My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.

American Artist

Jamie Johnson

Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.

American Director

David Perlmutter

When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred.

American Scientist

Joyce Carol Oates

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

American Novelist

Thomas Newman

I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.

American Composer

Herbert A. Simon

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

American Economist

George Pataki

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

American Politician

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

Memorialize carries strong emotions, often related to respect and remembrance for those who have passed away or historical events.

Emotional Tone

Memorialize often involves creating or using physical objects like statues, plaques, or memorial gardens.

Physical Tributes

Sometimes, events are memorialized not to celebrate, but to remind us of past tragedies and lessons learned.

Not Always Positive

In a legal context, to memorialize means to make an action or decision permanently recorded and official.

Legal Permanence

Memorialize is used in formal settings, such as law or governance, to describe the process of documenting important matters.

Formal Documentation

To memorialize in writing often means creating a detailed and accurate record that stands over time.

Detailed Record

 both met with UDC members and enabled them to memorialize the Confederacy in Arlington National Cemetery. The UDC still exists and defends Confederate symbols as part of a noble heritage of sacrifice by their ancestors. Despite the wealth of primary sources showing that slavery was the root cause of the Civil War,

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 and how I'd like to memorialize my life, you know, for the ages, and also — — the lives of my friends, but the problem with this is that my friends aren't quite keen on the idea of me taxidermy-ing them. So instead, I turned to video, and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize

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 decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the

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 just knew I had to memorialize her with a tattoo so she's now on my arm and with me forever