My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
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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.’
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It’s not white versus black any more, it’s haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.
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Birth: | 16th September, 1950 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Editor, Historian, Professor, Television Presenter |
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. was born in Keyser, West Virginia, USA. He is an American literary critic, author, editor, professor, historian, and television presenter. He earned his BA degree in history at Yale University in 1973. He earned his PhD in English literature from Clare College, Cambridge University in 1979. He currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. In addition to producing and hosting previous series on the history and genealogy of prominent American figures, since 2012 Gates has been host for three seasons of the series Finding Your Roots on PBS. He has written several books include: The Signifying Monkey, Loose canons, Colored People: A Memoir, The Future of the Race, Wonders of the African world, Life Upon These Shores, and Black in Latin America.
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