Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Find the good, and praise it.
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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.
Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am…well, it’s fun to lose it sometimes.
My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
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.