Attitude We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American... Henry Louis Gates 13
Truth The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to... Henry Louis Gates 15
Future 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... Henry Louis Gates 17
Chance My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him. Henry Louis Gates 23