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Very Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.
- 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…
- Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go…
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