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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
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Henry Louis Gates
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 16
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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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When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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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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The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.
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