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I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual. Melinda 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 their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about. Henry Louis Gates
No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. Henry Louis Gates
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Henry Louis Gates
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think..."
I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black? 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
Henry Louis Gates quote: "I think that the implication of King's assassination has not..."
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement."
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates quote: "Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect..."
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. Henry Louis Gates
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 where I am. Henry Louis Gates
Bill Gates quote: "Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my..."
Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. Bill Gates
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. Bill Gates
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. Bill Gates
Bill Gates quote: "We are in the throes of a transition where every publication..."
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. Bill Gates

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