Henry Louis Gates
Scholar, Historian
"You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it."
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Canon
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Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon."
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