"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."
― Henry Louis Gates
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Attitude
― Henry Louis Gates
More From Henry Louis Gates
- "America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system."
- "The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again."
- "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."
More In Attitude
- "In the late ’70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn’t do TV and vice versa, but that’s gone now."― Robert Carlyle
- "The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."― Theodore Roosevelt
- "Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another."― Rudolf Hiferding