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Just Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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…
- One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and…
- What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he…
- Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of…
- There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
- 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…
- We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in…
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- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong