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Henry Louis Gates Quotes

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

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I didn't feel particularly close to my father. - Henry Louis Gates

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. - Henry Louis Gates

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. - Henry Louis Gates

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