I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Like the amazing story of Anthony Johnson. This man was a slave, then became free, accumulated 250 acres, and even had his… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
