Kinte's Quotes

#1. I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.

Keke Palmer

#2. It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

Petra Nemcova

#4. Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Orson Scott Card

#5. If we got caught being in grandma's smaller room without her or without another adult being there, we were surely in for a good old-fashioned ass whipping, Kunta Kinte style. Grandma Bertha didn't play that shit.

Amina

#6. Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

Vladimir Putin

#7. I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

Judith Butler

#8. An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

Paul Watson

#9. Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

Alex Haley

#10. You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#11. A November, 2012 article in India Times claims software developers are obsolete by age 40. That's a tough age to start a new career.

Robert Oshana

#12. Short blonde hair, big rectangular forehead, like Frankenstein made a second monster, and that monster loved death metal and Twinkies.

Scott Kelly

#13. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Abraham Lincoln