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

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

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

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

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 don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.