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I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness I guess in the way I raise my kids.
My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont W.Va. and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip and I was Little Skip.
Quotes By Henry Louis Gates
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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
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Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
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My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...
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The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
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But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
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I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
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The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
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The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
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Wherever you go in the history of America there have been Black people...
Quotes About Mom
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
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Whether it's a 16-year old girl or a mom or a guy or anybody as long as...
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Our songs touch people and take them back to a time when there was no threat...
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At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and...
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I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
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When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you...
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I was fortunate enough to have my kids early so being a mom always ended up...
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I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older they can see me...
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Then you've got Georgetown and I really just like everything about them....