#any

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#assassinated #became #being #black #consider

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

#father #father and son #first #genetics #history

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american history #been #color #contributions #history

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#boom #com #few #find #genealogy

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#asian #black #black or white #business #business school

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#cheese #different #different kinds #forty-six #govern

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#action #alone #deliberation #many #work

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#country #does #friends #great #great country

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. ↗