Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

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

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

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

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

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