Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. He is well-known as a literary critic, an editor of literature, and a proponent of black literature and black cultural studies.
“Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.”
Henry Louis Gates
“Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.”
Henry Louis Gates
“The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.”
Henry Louis Gates