When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is for my fellow gangstas suffering racism.

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