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Henry Louis Gates quotes about tree

American Critic September 16, 1950

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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree."
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. Henry Louis Gates
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. Henry Louis Gates
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. Henry Louis Gates

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