Books Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

— Susan Sontag

“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

“slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion,”

— Thomas Sowell

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability…

— Maya Angelou

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and,…

— Frederick Douglass

“A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful…

— Christina Abernathy

“In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be…

— Toni Morrison

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

— Henry Louis Gates

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson