Henry Louis Gates Quote

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.


Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self (ed. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1989) - ISBN: 9780195060744


It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and...

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and...

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and...

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and...