Henry Louis Gates Quotes

In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.

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• I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

  

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• If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.

  

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• We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

  

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• I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.

  

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• Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?

  

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• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  

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• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  

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• People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

  

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• Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

  

  Ella Baker
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• As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

  

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• God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.

  

  F. B. Meyer
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• I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important. Every part I play, I work on the backstory. If it's fully written out in the script, or there are intimations of it in the script, fine. If not, fine, no problem. I'll fill it in, or I'll create what it is.

  

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• I could never be so lucky again

  

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• An actress plays all types of roles. When I play Bernadette I will become Bernadette, but when I am off the screen I am Jennifer Jones. No girl could, however, fail to want her life to be exemplary so that she is worthy of playing Bernadette.

  

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• The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

  

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• I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

  

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• Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

  

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• All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

  

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• Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

  

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• In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians of both African and African-American history, and hired them as consultants. I had them submit what they thought were the indispensable stories, the ones they felt this series absolutely had to include.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
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