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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If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
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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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They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian faith was what inspired the movement and kept it going.
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Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.
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I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
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Communism, my dear," I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while.
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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
