You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

History is written by winners.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

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

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.