#men

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#city #comedy #face #fey #film

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#centuries #exploration #good #immense #landscape

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. ↗

— Teri Garr

#because #cases #financial #financial aid #give

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. ↗

— Bill Gates

#money #often #private #risks #take

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#any #bottom #bottom line #continuously #documented

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#civil rights #civil rights movement #i #movement #rights

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #each #freshmen #give #golf

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. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #class