Henry Louis Gates Quotes

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyThinkYouReunionDNAMean

I invented myself.

Jerry Della Femina

MyselfInvented

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Maya Angelou

TruthChildrenPeopleGrowHonor

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

Anna Held

MoneyCareGloryJust

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

John Thorn

GameDyingSeventiesWoeMuch

I've always been a guy who comes in not being guaranteed a spot and always fighting for a spot. Any time you're in a camp, and you're not a big money guy, you're always going to be competing for a job.

Steve Clevenger

TimeMoneyJobFightingYouAlways

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

Suheir Hammad

WorldThinkFeminismJustI Think

When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.

Sia

ConnectedWriteAwayGiveGuess

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Trent Reznor

WorkManMakeupOld ManWantNever

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Dirk Kempthorne

ChildrenJusticeEndLoseSayMore

I cycle every weekend. Sometimes I swim.

Devon Cajuste

WeekendSometimesSwimCycleEvery

I just eat healthy and try not to eat late at night. And I exercise as well. That's a big change for me; I work out a lot.

Boy George

WorkChangeMeNightExerciseLate

I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.

Apolo Ohno

CommitmentChoicesBelieveThinkOwn

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