Quotes By Henry Louis Gates

• Success

  The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...

• Success

  Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...

• Relationship

  My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...

• Relationship

  The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...

• Positive

  But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...

• Patriotism

  Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

• Movies

  I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...

• Mom

  My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...

• Marriage

  The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...

• Hope

  The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...