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Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
- My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
- 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.
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
- My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
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