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When I was a little kid I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there and a mummy. When they were all hassling him this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
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.
Quotes By Henry Louis Gates
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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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My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
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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 Success
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You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be...
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It's an awesome responsibility not only to maintain the level of success the...
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Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has...
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The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.
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I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer....
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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and...
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I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who...
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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented but intellectual...
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Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.