#ran

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works. ↗

— Bill Gates

#dependent #energy #granted #house #industry

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#disbelief #ignorance #lack #regardless #truth

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#great #ideology #lincoln #love #obama

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

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#effect #had #him #i #i think

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

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #coloured #father #grandfather #i

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

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

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#assigns #beware #block #color #every