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Henry Louis Gates

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I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'


— Henry Louis Gates


#because #black #course #i #knew

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.


— Henry Louis Gates


#assassination #been #fully #i #i think

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


#american culture #black #common #culture #dna

I'm a tech geek.


— Henry Louis Gates


#i #tech

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?


— Henry Louis Gates


#black #geek #how #i #i think

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.


— Henry Louis Gates


#i #like #look #looking #looking forward

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.


— Henry Louis Gates


#dna #family #going #invite #mean

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.


— Henry Louis Gates


#dna #family #fascinating #going #i

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.


— Henry Louis Gates


#ancestry #black #drop #makes #you

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.


— Henry Louis Gates


#back #built #came #civil #civil rights






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ISBN 978-0-691-14234-0
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Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries including the history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the biographical African American Lives and Faces of America. (born September 16 1950) is an American literary critic educator scholar writer editor and public intellectual. B.

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