“We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“My mom, God rest her soul – she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.”
— 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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“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 only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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“America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.”
— Henry Louis Gates
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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
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