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I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

From Henry Louis Gates

It's fascinating how life works.

From Henry Louis Gates

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

From Henry Louis Gates

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

From Henry Louis Gates

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

From Henry Louis Gates

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

From Henry Louis Gates

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

From Henry Louis Gates

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

From Henry Louis Gates

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

From Henry Louis Gates

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

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