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101 quotes by Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Gates with his Peabody Awards for his documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Born Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950-09-16) September 16, 1950 (age 64) Keyser, West Virginia, US Occupation Author, documentary filmmaker, essayist, literary critic, professor Nationality American Alma mater Yale University (BA) Clare College, Cambridge (PhD) Genre Essay, history, literature Subject African American...
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There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes... →

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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 could become... →

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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even... →

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When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

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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... →

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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to... →

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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... →

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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost... →

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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 own... →

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You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find... →

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