You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to...

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates Quote About Roots, Slave Ships, Envy: You Can Say I Had...

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