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My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

You can't run from your roots.

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

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.

I'm sticking true to my roots.

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.