Best Henry Louis Gates Sayings
- The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. African
- First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that… African
- I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared… Anti
- The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard… Africa
- Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. Blackest
- Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. Dr
- I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. Civil
- I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. American
- I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black? Black
- I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians. All
- In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. Aspect
- Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. American
- Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology. Conciliator
- My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a… Bridge
- My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. Black
- What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. Construct
- All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. All
- But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's… All
- Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a… American
- For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical… Africa
- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was… Admired
- I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be… Affinity
- I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces… America
- It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of… Africa
- It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension… Any
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