Tree Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

10 Tree quotes by Henry Louis Gates

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Gates often frames trees within broader cultural narratives. These ten short reflections give you a snapshot of his thoughtful approach to nature’s role in society.

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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

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My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

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We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When…

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The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

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The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and…

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

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We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned…

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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the…

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Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can…

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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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