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Thinking 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of…
- I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
- 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…
- Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
- I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
- I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
- It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension…
- 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…
- A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically…
- If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion,…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
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