Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Our audience is really upbeat. Likes to have a good time. They're not introverted or shy.

Jerry Jeff Walker

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What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

Matthew Stewart

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I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.

Matt LeBlanc

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I always have a lot of hand cream.

Sigrid

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It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

Rob Sheffield

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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Robert Teeter

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I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

Mary Szybist

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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

Missy Elliott

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In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

Dory Previn

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I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

David Sedaris

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When it came to country, I loved the stories.

Brantley Gilbert

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