In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of... →
Henry Louis Gates
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... →
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be... →
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the... →
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.
We are not here to laugh.
Charles de Gaulle
Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'
Rebecca Gayheart
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I... →
Anthony Geary
People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.
Gordon Gee
If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely... →
Clifford Geertz