Henry Louis Gates
Related My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he wa... MAGDI YACOUB That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curt... DAKOTA FANNING When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside m... TONY PARSONS He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor. J. LOREN WINCE ALEX LIFESON When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha... TERRY J. LUNDGREN When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that... BILL FORSYTH REY MYSTERIO Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Pa... BARRY SONNENFELD BENJAMIN WATSON When we'd go to church, my mother would say, 'Ask the priest your questions.' And the priest was qui... 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ARCHIE ROBINSON I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I ... - NIRAV SANCHANIYA WALTER MOSLEY It's been neat to watch T.J. grow from when he was a little boy to a man now. When he came here, he ... GORDON GIBBONS MARK TWAIN JOSH BILLINGS MARK TWAIN MARIAH CAREY My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre... RAM KAPOOR RICK PITINO ZIGGY MARLEY MELINA MARCHETTA He'd get mad if you called him Lester. He said that when his father called him Lester, he knew he wa... GARY MARSH TAHEREH MAFI When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber t... HENDRIK POINAR EDMUND WHITE J.K. ROWLING YUKIO MISHIMA I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ HENRY LOUIS GATES GABRIELLE ZEVIN I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business Sc... FRANK QUATTRONE DINAH SHORE ORSON SCOTT CARD C.S. LEWIS C.S. LEWIS When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, a... WYCLEF JEAN I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL I told Father Bob we had 600-700 riders. ... He was quiet, then he said, 'Oh boy. I've got to get mo... CATHY MELANSON TORI AMOS When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that h... EMILIO ESTEVEZ I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy. STAN FREBERG We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to ... TREVOR RABIN TRACY MORGAN LEWIS THOMAS I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and u... ELIZABETH HAND ATHOL FUGARD We first played against each other when were about 8 years old. We've become good friends, and when ... JEFF LANG It was pretty high, man. It was way up in the sky. My cousin from Midland called me and told me he s... JOE GUTIERREZ Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was... WAYNE NEWTON When Brandon called me on the phone and said he was going to put his name in the draft -- and he cou... JOHN BRADY CASSANDRA CLARE Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russi... BOBBI BROWN If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a... IRWIN THOMAS I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. TOM SIZEMORE I was at a gas pump the other day when a man came up to me and thanked me for starting four black pl... BRUCE LARSON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN WALTER MOSLEY CAROL LEE I heard all the black people buzzing about this man in Brooklyn named Jackie Robinson. I asked who h... MAURY WILLS When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris... WADADA LEO SMITH JIMMY FALLON EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI CHARLES KURALT JON KRAKAUER I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ... FLORENCE WELCH C.S. LEWIS KARAN JOHAR Jeremy was actually with the Cleveland Browns when I was there. His father was a defensive coach, Ji... VINNY TESTAVERDE DONALD TRUMP EUGENE IONESCO He's never threatened me, but told the neighborhood how he dislikes me. I've let it go. I have not b... BOB MARGOLIS My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc... AUDREY MEADOWS We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n... JOE WHITE My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS He told me when he was a little boy, he went to the top of City Hall and looking out on the city, he... ALEXANDER GARVIN JHUMPA LAHIRI SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ... SAMUEL LEVENSON MERRY CLAYTON
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