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,....

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and....

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group....

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

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black....

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

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....