Faces of America Quotes

“Elizabeth [Alexander] is right, of course. It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount of cultural wealth. It is a tragedy that we are only able to imagine their individual contributions to that collective wealth- and the worlds they might have made had they been free.”
― Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts