Henry Louis Gates Quote

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.


Colored People (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307764430


I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on ...

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on ...

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on ...

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on ...