Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

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 don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jill Clayburgh

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People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

Jesmyn Ward

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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.

Jerry Falwell

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The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.

Jennifer Armintrout

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Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

John Hull

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I don't think I'm a flaming radical.

Jeanne Phillips

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I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

Roger Bannister

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I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun... or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I'm in pain.

Miriam Shor

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We want to send a clear message that the Mexican government won't endanger its fiscal position, and we will remain on a path of fiscal responsibility.

Luis Videgaray Caso

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Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

Jon Landau

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Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

David Wilkerson

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To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Conor McGregor

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