Alex Haley

“If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.”

“To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.”

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”