Quotes by : Henry Louis Gates

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.....

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination,....

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights....

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within....

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders....

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able....

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very....

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black....