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I'm getting back to my old roots.

— Tiger Woods

I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

— Quincy Jones

We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse.The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the…

— Duke Ellington

America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will…

— Nas

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl…

— Jean Fritz

The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out…

— Henry Edward Armstrong

My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have…

— Ann Coulter

“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated…

— Khushwant Singh

“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do…

— Epictetus

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or…

— Omar Sharif

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley