The Genius Is Making A Way Out

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.

In America One Drop Of Black Ancestry Makes You Black. In Brazil, It's Almost As If One Drop Of White Ancestry Makes You White.

If America Has A Civic Religion, The First Amendment Is Its Central Article Of Faith.

One Must Learn How To Be Black In America.

Everything My Mother And Father Did Was Designed To Put Me Where I Am.