#here

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. ↗

— Bill Gates

#fine #i #know #me #never

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

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#am #basically #best #capitalism #conservative

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#designed #did #everything #father #i

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #followed #get #here #institution

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

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#babies #care #fancy #i #i care

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #buried #contributions #go

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point. ↗

— George Stoneman

#becoming #cadet #concluded #i #point