Henry Louis Gates Quotes

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

Henry Louis Gates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BlackThinkStrategyWhiteClass

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

Jerry Lewis

StandAskHowAnyone

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

TheatreTelevisionCinemaYoungHand

If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.

Angela Duckworth

PassionYouPersonYoungTellWould

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

Spike Jonze

DeeplyEmpathize

The main thing is to believe writers know what their voices are, and if they are left alone, they will come through with something. There are a load of brilliant U.S. comedies: at the moment, I'm loving 'Girls.' People say the U.S. is more conservative; I think, actually, it is a bit looser here, but trends change.

Julia Davis

ChangeAloneMomentPeopleBelieve

When I got 'Stargate: Atlantis,' I said, 'Man, I'd love to be on HBO.'

Jason Momoa

LoveManSaidGotStargateHBO

Conditioning is very important when it comes to hair. One should oil hair on a regular basis for hair nourishment.

Disha Patani

HairImportantOilNourishmentVery

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

David Talbot

SchoolMeJournalismSociologySanta

There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.

Christina Romer

LightEconomicsProblemDrunkLooks

I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.

Condoleezza Rice

SupportPeopleMeSayingSomeone

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

Anne McCaffrey

My OwnOwnScreenBuyersVersion

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Alma Gluck

DaySoulAmericanEvery DayOut

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