The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Henry Louis Gates
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- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.
- Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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