KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Henry Louis Gates Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

Showing 71-80 of 105 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

~Henry Louis Gates

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

~Henry Louis Gates

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

~Henry Louis Gates

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

~Henry Louis Gates

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

~Henry Louis Gates

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

~Henry Louis Gates

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 16th, 1950

Links

Find Henry Louis Gates on Amazon

Related Authors

Brooks Atkinson
Andrea Dworkin
Roger Ebert
Margaret Fuller
Lawrence Clark Powell
George Edward Woodberry
Alexander Woollcott
Bell Hooks

Popular Authors

Johnny Depp Frederick Douglass Christopher Mccandless Michel De Montaigne Arthur Schopenhauer Frank Sinatra Sonia Sotomayor Oscar Wilde

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1915 - Thomas Merton

1919 - Jackie Robinson

1543 - Ieyasu Tokugawa

1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu

1752 - Gouverneur Morris

1784 - Bernard Barton

1797 - Franz Schubert

1857 - James Huneker

1868 - Theodore William Richards

1872 - Zane Grey

Birthdays on January 31st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art Best Fitness Future New Year's Politics Success Teen