Henry Louis Gates Quotes

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.

Jochen Zeitz

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Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

Jeremy Jordan

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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Maya Angelou

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A movie can be plain and simple, but if there's a lot of action, I enjoy them.

Rob Gronkowski

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The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Michael Moriarty

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I think every character I play definitely has parts of me. I can't ever play someone that's completely different to me.

Luke Mitchell

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I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

Jann Wenner

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Joseph de Maistre

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I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.

Dierks Bentley

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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

Donna Shalala

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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Donald Cargill

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The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

Donald Sutherland

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