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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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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters."
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"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
Family
"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
Society
"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
"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."
Family
"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
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
Family
"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
Reality
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
Family
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
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"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
Praise
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