Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

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 wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.

Jessica Sanchez

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When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.

Jenny Zhang

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If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

Anderson Cooper

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The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

Robert Plant

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I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

Mary Gaitskill

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I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

Michael Urie

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My mom called me 'Stinky Binky' as a toddler, and I started to refer to myself as, 'I'm Binkie.'

Michelle Carter

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My entire adult life has been in military. That's a big part of my life and a big part of why I am the person with the experience to be the United States senator.

Jon Keyser

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Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Chris Crutcher

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After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

Christina Aguilera

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I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Chris Tucker

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It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

Claire McCaskill

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