Henry Louis Gates Quotes
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
Quotes to Explore
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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I like guys who drive trucks.
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We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
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As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
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I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
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Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing.
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I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.
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IF you want to see my monument, look around you!
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Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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To will freedom and to will to disclose being are one and the same choice; hence, freedom takes a positive and constructive step which causes being to pass to existence in a movement which is constantly surpassed.
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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.
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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
