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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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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
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If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.
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I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
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My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
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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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Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
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The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.
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All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
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My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
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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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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
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The genius is making a way out of no way.
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My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of African-American history between 1513 and 2013. We covered half a millennium, and it's amazing.
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I have no plans to slow down.
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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
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The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.
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In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
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I think literacy is everything.
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Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
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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.
Henry Louis Gates