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Men 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…
- My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he…
- 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…
- My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
- The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard…
- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was…
- Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices…
- The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle