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African American Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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,
- 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.
- The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
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- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we… — James A. Baldwin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin