7 Quotes by Henry Louis Gates about america
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
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The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience,
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In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
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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.'
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My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
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One must learn how to be black in America.
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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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