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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.Collection: Henry
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.Collection: Henry
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.Collection: Henry
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.Collection: Henry
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.Collection: Henry
Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.Collection: Henry
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.Collection: Henry
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.'Collection: Henry
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.Collection: Henry
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.Collection: Henry
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.Collection: Henry
My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.Collection: Henry
There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.Collection: Henry
You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.Collection: Henry
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.Collection: Henry
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.Collection: Henry
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.Collection: Henry
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.Collection: Henry
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.Collection: Henry
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.Collection: Henry
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.Collection: Henry
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.Collection: Henry
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.Collection: Henry
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.Collection: Henry
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?Collection: Henry
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'Collection: Henry
The tithe payer helps the Lord build temples, where families can be sealed forever. The tithe payer helps Him send the gospel to people everywhere. The tithe payer helps Him relieve hunger and suffering in His own way through His servants.Collection: Henry
Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion and then let us go forward fearlessly so that we will be given the powers to do whatever the Lord calls us to do.Collection: Henry
Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.Collection: Henry
The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.Collection: Henry
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.Collection: Henry
The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.Collection: Henry
Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrary, I conclude that God, being both just and merciful, will and can rectify all inequities in a life after death.Collection: Henry
God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.Collection: Henry
I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.Collection: Henry
I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.Collection: Henry
Foreclosures are a significant problem; they're an economic problem.Collection: Henry
I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to have the means and the will to focus on the environment.Collection: Henry
Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.Collection: Henry
After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.Collection: Henry
I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.Collection: Henry
Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.Collection: Henry
I know the automakers are important to the United States. We care about the automobile industry.Collection: Henry
I supported some very, very objectionable things in terms of bailouts or rescues, but I did it not for Wall Street, but for the American people.Collection: Henry
It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the losses than have the United States of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.Collection: Henry
China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.Collection: Henry
As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.Collection: Henry
Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.Collection: Henry
When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90% of the people were against TARP. It prevented a disaster, but you don't get credit for a disaster that people don't see.Collection: Henry