Henry Louis Gates Quotes

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

- Henry Louis Gates

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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. - Henry Louis Gates

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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. - Henry Louis Gates