Henry Louis Gates Quotes

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.

Henry Louis Gates

Quotes to Explore

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
- Work
- Great
- Experience
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Rainer Maria Rilke
- Relationship
- Conversation
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

Harold Prince
- Art
- Always
- Theatre
We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

Nan Hayworth
- Future
- Today
- Growing
It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.

Raghuram Rajan
That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Nancy Jo Sales