Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
Henry Louis GatesThe act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
Henry Louis GatesThat's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.
Henry Louis Gates