Henry Louis Gates Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: b. September 16, 1950
Birthday: September 16
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
topic: Lonely, Black, Intellectual, Johnny Appleseed
