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• ‟ I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.

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• ‟ I stand by 'Roots' as symbol of the fate of my people.

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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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• ‟ I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the portrait I gave was true of nearly all the other villages in Gambia. I, we, need a place called Eden. My people need Pilgrim's Rock.

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• ‟ If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

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• ‟ Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.

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