Henry Louis Gates Quotes

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeHistoryManPeopleBelieveTry

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

Jo Nesbo

FriendMyselfMeWritingBelieveUp

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

John Desmond Bernal

ScienceArtTransformationPresent

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

Amanda Palmer

GoWhateverGreatestJustSongs

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Steve Jobs

HappyYearSaidThreeWantBuild

In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

MyselfWorldThinkImpactGiving

I speak up when it's needed.

Torrey Smith

SpeakUpNeeded

My entire life is a single body of work.

Rob Dyrdek

LifeWorkLife Is ABodySingle

Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.

Rudolf Steiner

NatureTogetherDeathAnimalBody

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Milarepa

PracticeWorldMeditationGoWill

There was a time, early on in my career, when it was very important for me to be liked by everyone. It meant that I was musically less honest with myself.

Joshua Bell

TimeMyselfMeEarlyCareerHonest

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

LonelyBadBeingWriterThing

I'm in this business, man, and I honestly don't know anything about show business at all. I don't know how it works.

Bobby Lee

BusinessManKnowAnythingShowHow

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