"There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees." ― Henry Louis Gates Topic(s): Family Tags: there More From Henry Louis Gates "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." "The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again." "The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up." More In Family "When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat."― Lance Bass "Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves."― Rush Limbaugh "While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn’t want to be in the wrong one."― Lauren Graham