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One Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
- 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.
- It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
- One must learn how to be black in America.
- One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and…
- Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within…
- 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.
- But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's…
- No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco…
- 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…
- It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed…
- 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…
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