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. – Alex Haley
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. – Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. – Ray Stannard Baker