"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."
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"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.“
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"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
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"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived."
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