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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: It is the...

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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.

Source: Dis and Dat: Dialect and Descent, in Afro-American Literature, by Dester Fisher and Robert B. Stepto, 1979.
-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr, (Sep 16 1950-____), US educator, critic, author; He is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities at Harvard University; won the American Book Award for The Signifying Monkey.


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