Every death is like the burning of a library.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

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

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

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.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.