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

Mingo went toward his cabin, but turning at the door, he looked back at George. “Hear me, boy! You thinks you’s sump’n special wid massa, but nothin’ don’t make no difference to mad, scared white folks! Don’t you be no fool an’ slip off nowhere till this blow over, you hear me? I mean don’t!

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.