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Instill respect for teachers.

Instill respect for teachers.

"35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

"The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

I think literacy is everything.

"35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

"35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

Henry Louis Gates (1989). “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self”, p.108, Oxford University Press on Demand