Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

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.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

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

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.