15 Most Inspirational Henry Louis Gates Jr Quotes
1. “You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.” – Henry Louis Gates
2. “The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.” ― Henry Louis Gates
3. “Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.” ― Henry Louis Gates
4. “There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.” – Henry Louis Gates
5. “Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.” ― Henry Louis Gates
6. “Diversity doesn’t mean black and white only.” – Henry Louis Gates
7. “If Martin Luther King came back, he’d say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.” ― Henry Louis Gates
8. “I have no plans to slow down.” – Henry Louis Gates
9. “People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.” ― Henry Louis Gates
10. “No human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.” ― Henry Louis Gates
11. “The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.” ― Henry Louis Gates
12. “Learning to sing one’s own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own’s voices, is also the goal of any writer.” ― Henry Louis Gates
13. “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ― Henry Louis Gates
14. “Learning to sing one’s own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own’s voices, is also the goal of any writer.” – Henry Louis Gates
15. “I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.” ― Henry Louis Gates