I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

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

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

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.