Father Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

9 Father quotes by Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates brings academic depth to a brief set of father‑related quotes, each line hinting at cultural and historical nuance. The collection feels like a quick lecture on the many faces of fatherhood.

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I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

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

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Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

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My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

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My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance…

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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their…

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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but…

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My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin'…

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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere…

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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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