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You can say I had a severe case of Roots envy. I wanted to be like

You can say I had a severe case of Roots envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates

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