Henry Louis Gates – People are afraid and when peo…

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People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.
-Henry Louis Gates
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You can say I had a severe case of ‘Roots’ envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage as I like to put it and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. -Henry Louis Gates

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The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. -Henry Louis Gates

Very few if any first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They’ll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. -Henry Louis Gates

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti. -Henry Louis Gates

It’s important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent subtle and sophisticated people with organized societies and great art. -Henry Louis Gates

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