"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

— Henry Louis Gates