“The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.”
— Henry Louis Gates
Author: Henry Louis Gates
Category: truth
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The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes
“The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.”
— Henry Louis Gates
Author: Henry Louis Gates
Category: family
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People who own property feel a sense
“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
Author: Henry Louis Gates
Category: society
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