The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Henry Louis GatesPoliticians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Henry Louis GatesIt's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
Henry Louis GatesThe biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!
Henry Louis Gates