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People 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,
- There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the…
- 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.…
- 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…
- It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
- 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…
- 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…
- I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted…
- People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame.…
- In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints…
- People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped…
- Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
- So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
- I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared…
- 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…
- 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…
- It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of…
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be…
- 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…
- So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each…
- The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying…
- 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…
- Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
- 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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