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."
- "There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees."
- "What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He’s been bridging divisions his whole life."
More In Art
- "Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."― Christopher Lasch
- "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."― Thomas Merton
- "Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It’s all subjective."― Jerry Saltz