Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates

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.

Might

Sound

Thinking

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian’s footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

Example

Looks

Numbers

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.

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Queens

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

America

Country

Men

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

Achievement

Diaspora

Finest

Arnold Rampersad’s stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison’s own masks and myths. One of the nation’s most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

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Long

Men

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

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Stories

Want

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Brazil

Nations

World

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It’s had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Our Generation

People

White

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Art

Justice

Lynching

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Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates

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.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian’s footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

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