Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, barely 5'8". But he was man enough to date a six-foot tall woman earlier this year. His confidence level probably outweighs him. Last February, he cold-called Skip Gates to ask for contacts in the music industry and then followed up on the names he was given. And on location this spring, clothed in rags and a turban, he went right up to Morgan Freeman and introduced himself...
Given that "Skip Gates has a piece show up in The New Yorker every 15 minutes," Harris says, Americans may believe that all the important work in Afro-American studies transpires in Cambridge...
...There are equally wonderful guys around at my university," he says. "Other voices and other minds bring different points of view, so that people don't think that black America is some big monolith, marching lock and step behind Skip Gates and company...
...follow in their footsteps, and five years from now we will write entries for the Class Book detailing our material successes. At least one person, however, will step forward bravely and confess that his or her life hasn't turned out at all like expected. Our hearts will skip a beat as we wonder how our former classmate failed. The truth, of course, is that the only failure is the person who loses their inner moral compass, who gives up hope, who becomes part of the system instead of a voice urging--sometimes in the face of public opinion...
...were walking through the Square," says Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., of friend and Class Day speaker Quincy Jones. "We were walking toward the Af-Am department and right in front of CVS, he says, 'Stop. You hear that? That kid'"--a young drummer in front of the Coop--"'is really, really talented.' And Quincy went over to the kid...and asked him for his name and said he would give him a call...