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

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.

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