Henry Louis Gates Quotes


You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it. - Henry Louis Gates


You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. - Henry Louis Gates


You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. - Henry Louis Gates


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


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


What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. - Henry Louis Gates


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


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