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Henry Louis Gates Quotes

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History People Color American Been

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Without System Exist Been Ideology

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

Time Small Texas Small Town Acting

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.

History Money Perspective Creative

The point I wanted to make was, as we have moved forward on the war on terrorism, FISA has been increasingly effective in terms of results.

War Forward Results Terrorism Point

While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.

Life God Religion Spiritual Find

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

Talent Who Like Those Dudes

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Understanding Choice Meeting Defeat

I do proclaim myself king of bachata because I have to represent my genre. I have to always come out and put on the Superman cape. I'm pretty much representing my culture. I'm not going to change that. But I definitely don't want there to be a misconception where people are like, 'The only thing he likes to do is bachata.'

Change Myself Culture King People

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the perfect place for a dialogue that brings together industry, civil society, U.N. agencies, and countries around a shared response to the challenge of protecting children against vaccine-preventable illness.

Children Challenge Together World

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Pet You Kind She Pay Cat

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

Years Contract System Seven Studio

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

Think Exploration Personal Matter

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