There Was A Great Deal Of Inbreeding

You Have To Deal With The Fact That Your Life Is Your Life.

Either You Deal With What Is The Reality, Or You Can Be Sure That The Reality Is Going To Deal With You.

I Acknowledge Immense Debt To The Griots [tribal Poets] Of Africa - Where Today It Is Rightly Said That When A Griot Dies, It Is As If A Library Has Burned To The Ground.

There Was A Great Deal Of Inbreeding Between The Indians And The Slaves. Genetically Speaking, Black People Are Some Part Black, Some Part European.

In All Of Us There Is A Hunger, Marrow-deep, To Know Our Heritage- To Know Who We Are And Where We Have Come From. Without This Enriching Knowledge, There Is A Hollow Yearning. No Matter What Our Attainments In Life, There Is Still A Vacuum, An Emptiness, And The Most Disquieting Loneliness.