Henry Louis Gates Quotes

The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.

Henry Louis Gates

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• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Long
  • Boy
  • Progress

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Heroic

• I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Today

• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Feel

• I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • You
  • Young
  • Afraid

• I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • Player
  • Singing

• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Love
  • For Him

• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Song

• No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Stand
  • Minds
  • Against

• We were so in love back then now you're listening to what they say.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Listening

• Necessity, mother of invention.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Mother
  • Motherhood
  • Invention

• I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Brain
  • Literature

• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Thought

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Fun
  • Tree
  • Historical