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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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"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."

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"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."

"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
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