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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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• The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from… Been
• The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that… Admire
• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World… African
• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave… Africa
• There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans… African
• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go… Any
• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. African
• Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. America
• You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you… American
• You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...… Able
• You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit… Back Together
• You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a… Ancestor
• 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

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