Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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One must learn how to be black in America.
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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
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The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
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Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
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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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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
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It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
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Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
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There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
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Without doubt, President Barack Obama is a great historical figure.
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The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
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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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Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.