You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

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

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

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

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

History is written by winners.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.