Mean Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

10 Mean quotes by Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates examines meanness through a cultural and historical lens. In this concise collection he connects personal behavior to larger societal patterns, urging deeper reflection.

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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

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That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

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If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to…

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If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these…

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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.…

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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…

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If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to…

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Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant…

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I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will…

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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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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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