Henry Louis Gates Quotes

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

Jeremy Scott

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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

John Milius

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In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Robert M. La Follette

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I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Anna Held

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I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Ann Hood

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While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

John Podhoretz

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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Shimon Peres

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What's so cool about God and our government is that you can make a mistake, and they will forgive you if you just a good person and doing right.

Tom Lister, Jr.

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The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.

Ron White

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I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.

Ronnie Milsap

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