Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
Quote by Henry Louis Gates
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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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Henry Louis Gates Quotes
- My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
- But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
- The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.
- 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.
- The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
- Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
- So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
- My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
- There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
Best Quotes
- But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.
- Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
- New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
- They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
- In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
- Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
- The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
- Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.