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I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates Biography

  Nationality: American
Type: Critic

Born: September 16, 1950
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