Henry Louis Gates Quotes

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

Joe Rogan

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I do not say anything from jealousy.

Anna Held

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I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

Mia Wasikowska

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Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Stephen Baker

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Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Stacey Farber

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I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.

Josh Tillman

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Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.

Dimitri Payet

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A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Boris Becker

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Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Brian Schweitzer

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I've never been called quiet about anything in my life. However, I'm also not one of those people who thinks that because I have been moderately successful at playing make believe for a living that I am supposed to tell you who to vote for.

Allen Covert

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