Henry Louis Gates Jr. Quotes

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

I like to read and understand.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Reading is important.

Read books. They are good for us.

Reading is a huge part of life.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Educate, educate, educate!

I do think observing is important in learning.