Henry Louis Gates Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Mother, Father, Mother And Father

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

• My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Black, Grandfather

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

• My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Son, African American

  "Q&A: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the Mysteries of His Genome". Interview with John Lauerman, www.bloomberg.com. February 17, 2012.

• My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Men, Thinking

• My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Men, Looks

• My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin' and hollerin' and jumpin' up and down all around the living room. I started crying because he scared me to death.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Memories, Father, Crazy

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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

  Father, Bridges, Long

• I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Birthday, Father, Boys

  "Black In Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

• I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Feels

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