Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
Quotes to Explore
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
-
I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
-
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
-
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
-
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
-
There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
-
I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
-
I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
-
Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
-
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
-
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
-
We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
-
I think abortion is murder.
-
I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
-
In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
-
I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
-
Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
-
Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
-
There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.
-
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
-
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
