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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,
- It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
- What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he…
- So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
- 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 want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
- Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
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- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
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