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.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

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

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

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

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

The train blows through towndelivering reality, slapping my face and screaming, “You are alone”Rose colored memories drown, taking their last breath.

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

I can't wait to have kids; I just can't wait to hold a baby in my arms.

It can't be pretty without being ugly first.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.