#ike

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#chance #day #end #every #every day

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #funniest #i #like #look

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #children #differently #get #granted

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#fashion #like #look #translates #which

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#like #roses #treaties #while #young

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#like #roses #see #treaties #while

When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy. ↗