My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
If Martin Luther King came back, he’d say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
I rebel at the notion that I can’t be part of other groups, that I can’t construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
What’s fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It’s so different but it’s so similar to the United States, to Miami. It’s like a doppelgaenger. It’s the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. Henry Louis Gates Read Quote
