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Back Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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...…
- 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…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
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- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood