The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

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

We try to emphasize the fact that we are not religiously affiliated.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it

My fondest hope is that "Roots" may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.