Henry Louis Gates Quotes

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1950

Topics

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Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure.

John Boyega

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I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement.

John Lewis

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I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

Johnny Crawford

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There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Amir Butler

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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Tre Cool

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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Diablo Cody

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I won't sell any Facebook shares as long as I'm on the board. When I leave, all my Facebook shares will be donated to two or three D.C. education-related charities I've supported over the years. Thus, a small portion of Facebook's success will be shared with low income students in Washington.

Donald E. Graham

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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

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I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

Chris Rock

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I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.

Autre Ne Veut

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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

Paulo Coelho

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I'm well into sort of Santiago Calatrava and people like that.

Sean Booth

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