Henry Louis Gates Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

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

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

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

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

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

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