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

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

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.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

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

Racism and hatred are synonymous.