Henry Louis Gates Quotes
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
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People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
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We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time.
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To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
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I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.
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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
