"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
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― Henry Louis Gates
More From Henry Louis Gates
- "I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti."
- "I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as ‘Tarzan.’"
- "My mom, God rest her soul – she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip."
More In History
- "Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"― Emile M. Cioran
- "All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary."― Barbara Kruger
- "When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I’d discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater."― Morgan Freeman