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

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

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

I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question would establish my name, and the fact that I've written Roots, and the third question, at least no later than the fourth question would not be a question, so much as a statement, something like, "We understand that in America white people do such and such bad things to black people."

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

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.