Henry Louis Gates Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm a tech geek.

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

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.

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents ... They treated us like adults.

I have no plans to slow down.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

It's fascinating how life works.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

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.

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.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.