Henry Louis Gates quoteHenry Louis Gates [1950-0]
American Critic 
Quote rank: 204
| You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. |
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