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• ‟ In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

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• ‟ All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

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• ‟ One must learn how to be black in America.

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• ‟ In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

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

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• ‟ Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

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• ‟ 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.

  - Henry Louis Gates