Best quotes by Henry Louis Gates on American
Checkout quotes by Henry Louis Gates on American
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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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‟ I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
- Henry Louis Gates
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‟ 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.
- Henry Louis Gates
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‟ It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
- Henry Louis Gates
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‟ Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
- Henry Louis Gates
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‟ Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
- Henry Louis Gates
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‟ Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.
- Henry Louis Gates