"My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Mom Quotes #Names Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.”
“I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.”
“She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.”
“Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.”
“What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek”
“When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.”
“Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.”

Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.46

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