Top 103 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

About Henry Louis Gates

These are some quotes by American author Henry Louis Gates Critic, who was born on September 16, 1950.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

Henry Louis Gates

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Henry Louis Gates

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

Henry Louis Gates

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Henry Louis Gates

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Henry Louis Gates

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

Henry Louis Gates

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Henry Louis Gates

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

One must learn how to be black in America.

One must learn how to be black in America.

Henry Louis Gates

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