Family Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Henry Louis Gates

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author…

— Henry Louis Gates

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able…

— Henry Louis Gates

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

— Henry Louis Gates