"The thing about living in a village at……" — Henry Louis Gates
"The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere."
—
Henry Louis Gates
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
113 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates has 113 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
-
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just…
-
The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
-
Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
-
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any…
-
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale…
-
There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election…
-
I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular…
-
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
-
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to…
-
An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
-
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched…
See all 113 quotes by Henry Louis Gates »
More Becomes Quotes
This quote is filed under Becomes Quotes,
one of 5,969 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
-
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
— Rowan Atkinson
-
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— Saint Augustine
-
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
— Paul Auster
-
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
-
I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
— David Axelrod
-
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
— Sai Baba
-
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
-
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
-
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
-
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
See all 5,969 Becomes Quotes »