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[Wikipedia] Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname "Skip", is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard Universit

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• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and… Base
• Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within… Action
• What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he… Able
• The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it… Activity
• The genius is making a way out of no way. Genius
• The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. Black
• I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted… Been
• People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame.… Afraid
• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of… Africa
• In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints… Ago
• If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. Built
• People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped… Culture
• Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. Art
• In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. America
• In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to… Air
• Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. Black
• The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. Anyone
• Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. African
• My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker. Ever Met
• There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. Buried
• Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. Designed
• I have no plans to slow down. Down
• I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. Criminal
• Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. Aimed
• So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. American

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