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Henry Louis Gates quotes

American Critic September 16, 1950

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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more..."
Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. Henry Louis Gates
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 wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. Henry Louis Gates
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. Henry Louis Gates
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' Henry Louis Gates
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen..."
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental..."
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Louis Gates
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 particular needs. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "The thing about black history is that the truth is so much..."
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the..."
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. Henry Louis Gates
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Henry Louis Gates
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. Henry Louis Gates
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. Henry Louis Gates
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.' Henry Louis Gates

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