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

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

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

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

History is written by winners.

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.