"My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents… They treated us like adults."
― Henry Louis Gates
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Relationship
― Henry Louis Gates
More From Henry Louis Gates
- "The African American’s relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen’s African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa."
- "So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… we’re adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that’s the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship."
- "Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They’ll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school."
More In Relationship
- "Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love."― Morihei Ueshiba
- "It’s about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else."― Ismail Merchant
- "I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another."― Rebecca Romijn