Henry Louis Gates Quotes
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
Quotes to Explore
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I don't like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.
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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
