"The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass."

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Henry Louis Gates

#Class Quotes #Rights Quotes #Ironic Quotes

“I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”
“I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.”
“Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.”
“Realistically I know I'm an entertainer. When you're exciting, you're remembered.”
“Be careful what you swallow. Chew!”

Source : Talk with graduates at Buena Vista University Graduation, 1995.
“I love Kelly Clarkson.”
“Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular.”
“If you don't have dreams, you don't have a life.”

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