Henry Louis Gates Quotes
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
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I hate it when Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi get to beat their drums and talk about what a great day it is for America that President Trump failed - when even they know ObamaCare is a total disaster.
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The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.
