Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JusticeArtCensorship

I think of myself as a complete player.

Joel Embiid

MyselfThinkCompletePlayerI Think

Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.

Andre Ward

GreatnessChasingAbout

Give your children all the time and energy. They need to be your number one priority.

Sridevi

ChildrenTimeEnergyNeedGiveYour

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

Steven Hall

LoveYourselfSpaceClimbStoryYou

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Sitting Bull

GreatManI AmRedMePlace

There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'

RuPaul

HistorySongSurviveWillMoreBeen

I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.

Lisa O'Hare

TalentNew YorkAmazingListening

With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.

Jay Kristoff

CultureAmericanWildWild WestSaw

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

Janet Yellen

WiseMeRiseTargetPolicyAbove

I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.

Dorian Missick

BlackThinkFriendsWhiteThreeTwo

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill

LifeFamilyCommunityBeautifulDown

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Pierre de Coubertin

LifeGoodRespectValueJoyEffort

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