"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Tree Quotes #Stories Quotes #Buried Quotes

“Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.”
“More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.”
“I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.”
“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And thatâ€”in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.”

Source : "The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words". Book edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.
“Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.”
“I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.”
“The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.”
“The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.”

You may also like:

Ben Affleck
Actor
Cornel West
Philosopher
Frederick Douglass
Orator
Gloria Reuben
Singer
John Hope Franklin
Historian
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher
Michael Eric Dyson
Author
W. E. B. Du Bois
Historian
Zora Neale Hurston
Anthropologist