153 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

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.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.