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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american #city #class #concerned #even

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#currency #debase #did #doing #fictitious

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#american #been #china #first #incredible

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#america #based #come #experience #fascism

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. ↗

— Bill Gates

#anybody #becoming #business #i #inextricably

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#agency #american #american people #assassinate #attempted

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#anglo-saxon #as far as #better #clubs #concerned

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #broadcast #channels #digital #everybody

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #bridge #child #divide #finally