American - Critic | September 16, 1950 -
I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
Henry Louis Gates
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It's fascinating how life works.
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What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
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My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
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Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.
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No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
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Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
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My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
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There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
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