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

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

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

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

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.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

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