14 quotes found
“Find the good, and praise it.”
“Find the good - and praise it.”
“You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.”
“Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.”
“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
“Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.”
“I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...”
“I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence which caused many close observers of the Malcolm X phenomenon to declare in...”
“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”
“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.”
“Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee. (Behold...”
“The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.”
“The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.”
