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Henry Louis Gates

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Henry Louis Gates
Kreativitas
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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Henry Louis Gates
Kreativitas
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
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Henry Louis Gates
Pendidikan
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
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Henry Louis Gates
Pendidikan
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
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Henry Louis Gates
Nasihat
The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
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.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
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Henry Louis Gates
Motivasi
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
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Henry Louis Gates
Persahabatan
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
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.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keberanian
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
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Henry Louis Gates
Pendidikan
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
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Henry Louis Gates
Kreativitas
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
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Henry Louis Gates
Nasihat
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
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.
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Henry Louis Gates
Keluarga
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
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