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Henry Louis Gates quotes about father

American Critic September 16, 1950

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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. Henry Louis Gates
My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me..."
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. Henry Louis Gates
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 a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. Henry Louis Gates
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "I didn't feel particularly close to my father."
I didn't feel particularly close to my father. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black."
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx..."
My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker. Henry Louis Gates

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