I Know That Statistically, It

In All Of Us There Is A Hunger, Marrow-deep, To Know Our Heritage, To Know Who We Are And Where We Came From.

I Suppose That It Was Inevitable That My Word-base Broadened. I Could Now For The First Time Pick Up A Book And Read And Now Begin To Understand What The Book Was Saying. Anyone Who Has Read A Great Deal Can Imagine The New World That Opened. Let Me Tell You Something: From Then Until I Left That Prison, In Every Free Moment I Had, If I Was Not Reading In The Library, I Was Reading In My Bunk. You Couldn’t Have Gotten Me Out Of My Books With A Wedge...months Passed Without My Even Thinking About Being Imprisoned. In Fact, Up To Then, I Never Had Been So Truly Free In My Life.

Indeed Optimists Rather Than Defeatists Have Produced The Results For Which Serious Genealogical Research Is Best Known.

I Tell Younger Writers That Indeed It Is Devastating To Be Rejected. You Feel Like The Bottom Dropped Out Of Your World.

Roots Is Not Just A Saga Of My Family. It Is The Symbolic Saga Of A People.