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
-
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
-
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
-
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't like to talk about myself.
-
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.
-
I like guys who drive trucks.
-
I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
-
We see that coming back in the fourth quarter and going on into next year.
-
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
-
I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.
-
Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing.
-
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
-
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.
-
The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny.
-
Orders were issued by the Sublime Court to dismiss the Hindu Chowkinavis and to appoint in their place Musalmans, and, likewise, a way should be found for replacing the Amins of the Haft-chowkis by the Musalmans.
-
You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.
-
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
