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.
If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.
