"I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?"

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Source : "Colored People: A Memoir". Book by Henry Louis Gates, therumpus.net. 1994.

Henry Louis Gates

#Lying Quotes #Race Quotes #African American Quotes

“The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.”
“There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.”
“Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.”
“One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.259
“I love being a gypsy. Home is between New York and California.”
“True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.”
“What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.”
“The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.”

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