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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.


Henry Louis Gates


#been #black #buried #contributions #go

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?


Henry Louis Gates


#american #as far as #back #black #born

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.


Henry Louis Gates


#africa #alex #back #case #envy

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.


Henry Louis Gates


#back #black #contribution #could #created

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.


Paul Gauguin


#appetite #cultivated #demand #every #fresh

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.


Paul Gauguin


#assigns #beware #block #color #every

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.


Jean Paul Gaultier


#designer #everything #fashion #fashion designer #i

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.


Charles de Gaulle


#drop #drown #every #fair #only

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.


Jean Paul Gaultier


#been #clothes #even #everything #expensive

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.


Marcus Garvey


#call #competition #concerned #economically #every