The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.


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no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.


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Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount of cultural wealth. It is a tragedy that we are only able to imagine their individual contributions to that collective wealth- and the worlds they might have made had they been free.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.


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Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.


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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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