Henry Louis Gates

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ennoble #necessarily #suffering #you

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#any #bottom #bottom line #continuously #documented

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #class

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#case #escape #hard #insists #poverty

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #black #black history #complex #could

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#alike #black #citizens #devoid #master

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#family #just #many #stories #trees

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#boom #com #few #find #genealogy

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#asian #black #black or white #business #business school