Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

Henry Louis Gates

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• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Star

• You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Writing
  • Play
  • Thought

• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Singer

• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Individual

• The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Simple
  • Individual
  • Humility

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

• Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Reading

• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Task

• I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Book

• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Head

• I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Writing
  • May
  • True

• I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Good
  • Writing

• I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

  

  Melanie Mayron
  • Wall

• The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Writing
  • Individual
  • Creating