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The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.


Henry Louis Gates


#behind #black #closet #did #dna

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.


Henry Louis Gates


#africa #been #colors #diversity #else

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.


Henry Louis Gates


#black #followed #get #here #institution

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.


Bob Marley


#fall #herb #more #more people #people

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

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.


Henry Louis Gates


#affirmative #affirmative action #black #black community #certainly

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.


Melinda Gates


#also #because #believe #how #move

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.


Charles de Gaulle


#action #alone #deliberation #many #work

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.


Carl Friedrich Gauss


#arrive #had #how #i #i am

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.


Tom Stoppard


#get #half #i #i write #into






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