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Honorary Degrees
Skip gates interviewing someone on a TV production set

“Thus great with child to speak and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,
‘Fool,’ said my muse to me, ‘look in thy heart, and write.’”

Sir Philip Sidney, “Astrophil and Stella,” 1591

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Doctor of Humanities