In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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.Alex Haley
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots tribal poets of Africa -- where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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