"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." ― Alex Haley Topic(s): Family Tags: conceivable, every, manner More From Alex Haley "Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics." "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." "When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth." More In Family "My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley."― Mark Zuckerberg "I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting."― Jackie Chan "I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."― Francis Ford Coppola