"So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history."
― Henry Louis Gates
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History
― Henry Louis Gates
More From Henry Louis Gates
- "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."
- "Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried."
- "We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community."
More In History
- "The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965."― Herman Cain
- "History never looks like history when you are living through it."― John W. Gardner
- "It’s a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don’t come along very often so I thought, ‘Why not?’"― Daniel Craig