Community Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

9 Community quotes by Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates’s rich observations on Community emerge in nine brief statements, offering a quick taste of his scholarly approach to identity and heritage. This limited collection serves as an accessible entry to his thoughtful commentary.

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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote.…

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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no…

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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the…

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We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as…

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In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

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The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple…

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First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior…

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Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have…

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I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way…

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In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the…

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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

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I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

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I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

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I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to…

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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All…

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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or…

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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

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Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

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My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

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