Henry Louis Gates Quotes

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Henry Louis Gates

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• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

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• I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.

  

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• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

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• There will never be talking pictures.

  

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• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

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• I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

  

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• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

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• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

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• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

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• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

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• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

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• The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

  

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• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

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• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

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• Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.

  

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• I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.

  

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• I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

  

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• Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.

  

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• I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

  

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• When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.

  

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• I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

  

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• I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Important
  • Identity
  • Lying