153 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates

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

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

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

One must learn how to be black in America.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.