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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'


Henry Louis Gates


#also #america #among #analyze #diversity

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.


Henry Louis Gates


#city #coast #got #gulf #lands

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.


Henry Louis Gates


#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.


Henry Louis Gates


#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.


Henry Louis Gates


#black and white #diversity #mean #only #white

That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh.


David Sheff


#unnamed-lady #beauty

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.


Henry Louis Gates


#african #african american #american #behavior #behavioral

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.


Henry Louis Gates


#africa #been #colors #diversity #else

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.


Henry Louis Gates


#below #black #children #classes #day

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.


Antonio Gaudi


#consists #origin #originality #returning






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