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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

He meant you no harm?" said Omoro.
"He acted very friendly," said the old man, "but the cat always eats the mouse it plats with.

Through this flesh, which is us, we are you, and you are us!

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

I don't mind shaking hands with a human being, are you one?

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw ...

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

History is written by winners.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am ... well, it's fun to lose it sometimes.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Find the good, and praise it.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.