“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.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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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.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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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.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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