Share this sentence
— Henry Louis Gates"But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example."
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
— Chinua Achebe
Next Quote
Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
— Learned Hand
Loading recommended content...