Henry Louis Gates Quotes

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Henry Louis Gates

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• Black
• Mom
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• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

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• We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

  

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• The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

  

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• I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.

  

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• Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

  

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• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

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• For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

  

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• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

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• If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.

  

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• Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

  

  Edith Stein
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• People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

  

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• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

  

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• Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

  

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• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

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• Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.

  

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• The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

  

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• Certain men get intimidated and insecure around me. They can never get over the fact that I am taller than they are, but it really shouldn't matter.

  

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• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

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• One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

  

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• It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.

  

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• It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

  

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• My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Soul
  • Guy
  • Black