Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
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I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
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By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.
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For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
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I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.
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Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.
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It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
