"There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America.……" — 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 only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."
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Henry Louis Gates
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113 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to…
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An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.
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