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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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.
Quotes By Henry Louis Gates
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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
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Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
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My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...
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The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
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But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
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I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
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My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
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The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
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The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
Quotes About Family
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While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system...
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The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that...
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More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a...
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But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a...
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And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce men are...
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I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want...
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My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated...
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When I'm home the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up...