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.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

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

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

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.