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

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

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

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

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.

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

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.