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I have no plans to slow down.

Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 16
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In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
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The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.
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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
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The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.
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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
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Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
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My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
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Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.
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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.
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I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.
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Instill respect for teachers.
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We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.
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Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
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Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
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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.
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