The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Tags: culture
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.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.Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Tags: censorship freedom-of-thought literary freedom-of-speech american african-american freedom-to-read
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