Henry Louis Gates Quotes

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

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• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

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• I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

  

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• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

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• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

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• I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

  

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• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

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• The truth is, I'm not body confident.

  

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• But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

  

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• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

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• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

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• India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

  

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• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  

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• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

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• I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  

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• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

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• Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.

  

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• It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

  

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• We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating.

  

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• I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.

  

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• But to say that you don’t like that kind of music just because it IS that kind of music is silly. It’s a very big issue, a big controversy amongst jazz critics.

  

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• In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant succeeding at what it set out to do?

  

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• Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tradition
  • Critics
  • Demand