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To the best of my knowledge a...

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.

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Most of us prefer to be as qu...

Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

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There was a great deal of inb...

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

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If you need to know history, ...

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

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Beginning writers must apprec...

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

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I get interviewed a lot, and ...

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.

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History is written by winners...

History is written by winners.

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Tying the little folks with t...

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

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Roots is not just a saga of m...

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

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Either you deal with what is ...

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

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Most of the people I've met w...

Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.

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If somebody comes up and says...

If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.

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My fondest hope is that 'Root...

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

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Nobody can do for little chil...

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

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I think from what I personall...

I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.

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Two years passed, and I had n...

Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.

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I look at my books the way pa...

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

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If you think about it, there'...

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

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He was always - I like to say...

He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him.

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If you're blessed to do somet...

If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. But you're just swamped.

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