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Henry Louis Gates
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Henry Louis Gates
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 16
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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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If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
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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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My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
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The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.
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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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My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
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