Henry Louis Gates Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Goal, Community, Tree

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

• Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Song, Voice, Goal

• My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, Goal, Tree

  "Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A Life Spent Tracing Roots". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 8, 2012.

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