Henry Louis Gates Quotes
It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I am a contrarian.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
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I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
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I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
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It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
