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Father Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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.
- I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
- My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he…
- My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
- Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
- My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a…
- My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was…
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