All Henry Louis Gates Quotes
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. Auto
- America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live… America
- The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge. First Step
- Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. Complexity
- Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer. Any
- The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience, African
- There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the… All
- I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so… Any
- If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith. Amendment
- My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. African
- An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement. Achievement
- The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained.… Becomes
- In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of… All
- I didn't feel particularly close to my father. Close
- In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. America
- It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. American
- It's fascinating how life works. Fascinating
- It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people. Black
- My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults. Adult
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. America