Henry Louis Gates Quotes
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer.
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To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.
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I can't think of a better first show than a group like Alabama playing for a cause like this.
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We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.
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So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.
