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From Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained.…
- What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
- All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
- For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical…
- 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…
- 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…
- Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even…
- 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…
- The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from…
- 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...…
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