"A multifaceted problem has to be approached on a multifaceted level. There isn't one reason black people aren't doing well. It's not because of evil white people wearing hoods — it's because of structural problems."
"I am really a New England kind of guy. I feel less personally vulnerable in the North than in the South."
"They (black people) edit themselves in public and I do, too. We all code shift."
"Education is the blackest thing about our experience in America. If someone wants to be black, they should embrace education as if their life depended on it — because it does."
| Quotes from Henry Louis Gates, director of African-American Studies at Harvard University and author of "America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues With African Americans," in Katya Cengel's Louisville Courier-Journal article "Gates goes behind the color line: Academic and author invokes passion over race in U.S."
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