Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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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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.
- Henry Louis Gates
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.
- Henry Louis Gates