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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
Henry Louis Gates
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Henry Louis Gates
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 16
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What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
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I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.
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