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Henry Louis Gates, Jr
I want to...
I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but...
The act of...
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the...
It is the...
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who...
We must begin...
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond...
Insofar as we,...
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to...