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

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

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

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

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.