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America Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live…
- 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,
- There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the…
- If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
- In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of…
- In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
- One must learn how to be black in America.
- 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.
- In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to…
- I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon