“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.” ThinkingKindLittlesIdeasWantedGuyBlackSawsWifeGroupsJourneyRocksHairRootsAgingMy WifeBlondeEarringsBlonde Hair Author:Fred Willard
“Being that I'm a tropical black man I don't get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That's why they call me Sasquatch. There's no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.” MenFoundBlackCrazyBasketballRootsSnowCall MeTropicalSasquatch Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white.” MadeTodayAmericaHouseBlackWhiteGayMusic IsRootsHouse Music Author:Felix Buxton
“The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.” StillsMovingBlackWaterWhiteSunRootsWaveWoodsHolesBrownSandTwistedTransparentBack AgainBluffs Book:The Adventures of Augie March Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“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.” PeopleMenFeelsMayBlackWhiteFeetRedRootsBrownTallYellowAlexDiggingBlack White Author:Alex Haley
“Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.” RealMatterStoriesBlackDarkTraditionRootsMythRisingWhat MattersGiftedSplendidReal ThingsGroundingHolliesGifted Writers Author:Ellen Kushner
“Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.” PeopleMadeSoulEndsArtistBlackWhiteTraditionRootsDecadesBlack PeopleSixtyDivorcedPopular Music Author:Jon Landau
“The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.” IfsMatterBlackWhiteRocksRedRootsInstrumentsMajorityHip HopPopsHipsHopsYellowRock And RollDnaPop MusicBlack WhiteWesterners Author:Angelique Kidjo
“Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' "They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'” PeopleWantGivingBlackRootsTemptationHeyDamnBlack PeopleDetroitDon't Give A DamnMotherlandDamn You Author:Wanda Sykes