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

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

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

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

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Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.

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Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

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Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

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I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

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