"I really want to make as big an inpact as I can among younger black people about the vital importance of us going to our oldest people and talking with them and finding out what they know about our families. There is black history untold in the memories of the hundreds of thousands of grandmothers, grandfathers,and great-aunts, great whatever. Nobody asks them.
Another thing I'd like to have a lot to do with if I can, is to see if I can radically increase the number of family reunions held among black people. There is something about, something chemical that happens when a group of people with the same blood connection, blood-marriage connections, come togethe for the purpose of being together as such."
---Alex Haley
Posted By: Thomasena Martin-Johnson
Thursday, August 16th 2012 at 1:35AM
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