Henry Louis Gates Quotes

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

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• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Trump

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
  • Been

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Think
  • Rest

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fly

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Know
  • Gift
  • Test

• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Parents

• I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Nice

• The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • May
  • Light

• AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.

  

  Alfred Stieglitz
  • America
  • Dying

• I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Road

• I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

  

  Mae West
  • Stage
  • Just
  • Broadway

• A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Really
  • Much
  • Humorist

• My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.

  

  Alexandra Kerry
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Hero

• Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

  

  William Pennington
  • God
  • Father
  • Souls

• My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Father
  • Grandfather