Henry Louis Gates Quotes
My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin' and hollerin' and jumpin' up and down all around the living room. I started crying because he scared me to death.
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I would be the worst biologist in the world!
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I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
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One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
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I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.
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Unreason is now ascendant in the United States-in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
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The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
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The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.
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I like men mathematics with any great agility, but now I sensed it as a hard grid of truth underlying everything: bones shining through the thin flesh of the world.
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Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
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When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me.
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Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.
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My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin' and hollerin' and jumpin' up and down all around the living room. I started crying because he scared me to death.
