Anybody Quote by Esai Morales

I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about…

— John Ridley

I have always found it curious that Americans consider Roots' an American story. I first watched it growing up in Zimbabwe, and I naturally…

— Rege-Jean Page

I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through the mincing…

— David Olusoga

One's heritage and roots is something to be proud of and cherished.

— Sonja Morgan

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

— Henry Louis Gates

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself…

— Jenny Zhang

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

— Timothy Long

To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully…

— Alex Haley

Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

— Constance Baker Motley

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz