Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quotes
All these black people want to be related to Thomas Jefferson. I want to be related to Bill Gates.
There were a number of Blacks who believed that they were descended from the progeny of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves. Despite most evidence supporting that position, the Thomas Jefferson Society of Jefferson’s descendents, refused to admit them.
Henry Louis Gates, Cultural Reformer, Speech, National Book Fair, October 12, 2002
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John Adams was more concerned about the titles and forms of address of the President and Vice President than most of the Founding Fathers. Having spent time in London and Paris representing the nation, he was concerned about the dignity and symbolism of office. McCullough added this insight.
Many Republicans called the Presidential Assistant a “son of a bitch”. The Democrats of the day, actually did not mind that and used it and epithets against the President to campaign on illustrating the animus of the wealthy towards the reformers who wanted to improve the lot of the majority of Americans.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He rediscovered the earliest African-American novels, long forgotten, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon.
