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Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
Henry Louis Gates
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Henry Louis Gates
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 16
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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.
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My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
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My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
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You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.
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The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.
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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?
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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
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It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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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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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
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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 rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
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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.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
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The genius is making a way out of no way.
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