Henry Louis Gates Quotes

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

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• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Tree
  • Soil

• That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Tree

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Man
  • Day

• My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Complexity

• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Complexity
  • Decay
  • Expansion

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Success
  • Tree

• If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Tree

• We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Friends
  • Tree

• How the fuck you feed a tree?...What...you put a ham sandwich on the tree?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tree

• If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Tree

• But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Growing
  • Tree

• Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple,Two lovers blow together like music blowing:And the crowd dissolves about them like a sea.Recurring waves of sound break vaguely about them,They drift from wall to wall, from tree to tree.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Together
  • Wall

• When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

  

  Ty Pennington
  • House
  • Tree

• A Khaled record is always the best.

  

  DJ Khaled

• It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Honor

• My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • Important
  • Fun

• I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

  

  Eric Ries
  • History
  • Career
  • I Believe

• So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tree
  • Contribution
  • Complexity