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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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• No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco… Acapulco
• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be… African
• People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he… Ability
• So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each… African
• The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying… Been
• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and… Among
• The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why… Birth
• There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few… Ancestry
• We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in… African
• When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and… African
• A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically… Best
• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry… Able
• Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their… American
• Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with. African
• Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great… African
• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then… Ace
• If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion,… Ancestor
• It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed… Appleseed
• Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices… Added
• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even… Black
• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and… Africa
• My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va.,… Another Black
• Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could… College
• Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below… Black
• So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars… Adding

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