Henry Louis Gates Quotes

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Joan Baez

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I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

John Banville

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Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

John Battelle

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Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!

Joel Edgerton

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I get all of my comedy from CNN.

Rob Corddry

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We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.

Ron Lewis

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I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.

Michelle Williams

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Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.

Lloyd Shapley

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Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

Jay Griffiths

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As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.

Dick Dale

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Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

Donovan

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I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs!

Chrissy Teigen

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