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"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
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"Big Brother is watching you."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."
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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Children are angels."
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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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"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."
People
"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
Society
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
Family
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
Family
"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
Reality
"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."
Family
"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
Family
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
Help
"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
Praise
"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less."
Love
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