I Have No Plans To Slow Down.

The Second Thing That Happened Is, Dna Analysis Is Much More Sophisticated. All You Have To Do Now Is Spit In A Test Tube And You Find Out All Kind Of Things In Six Weeks - Where They Are From In Africa Or Europe. You Can Prove Or Disprove The Fundamental African-american Myth That You Descended From A Cherokee Great, Great Grandmother.

When Europeans Came Upon Real Ruined Cities They Refused To Believe That They Had Been Built By Africans. Here The Past Has Been Distorted And Denied.

What Happened In The Interim Is, Billions Of Records Have Been Digitized. Historians And Scholars Have Always Used Genealogical Records To Tell The Story Of American History. It Takes Months And Years Of Research. I Can't Even Tell You How Laborious That Is. You Have To Be Somebody Who Has A Lot Of Free Time, Like A Professor Who Can Take Tenure Or Someone With A Great Deal Of Leisure.

If You Don't Tell Your Stories, Other People Will Tell Their Story About You. It's Important That We Nurture And Protect These Memories. Things Change. Existence Means Change.

Learning To Sing One's Own Songs, To Trust The Particular Cadences Of Own's Voices, Is Also The Goal Of Any Writer.