Henry Louis Gates Quotes
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
Henry Louis Gates
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Abraham Lincoln
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
Octavia Spencer
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
Macaulay Culkin
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
Salman Rushdie
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
Padma Lakshmi
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer
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The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back, and fuck Jill on a hill, but you still ain't jack.
Eminem
