Henry Louis Gates Quotes
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy stories which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned
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I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night.
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The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
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I've watched it on and off. I don't know why everyone is fascinated by it.
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The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.
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We just kept waiting and waiting and waiting but never did see a sense of urgency from Washington.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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Hey, he speaks pretty well for a guy who just ate 2 lbs of crackers.
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Reason is the illusion of reality...
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I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize the time students spend learning, not the time they spend taking tests.
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My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy stories which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
