Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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I hate being too pretty.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.
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In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
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Recipes can be incredibly vague where chillies are concerned.
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I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
