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Kunta Kinte is NOT an American, and he utterly rejects that idea at every turn.

Rege-Jean Page

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Rege-Jean Page
English - Actor
Born: 1990

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

Malachi Kirby

When I was in school, my first acknowledgement of 'Roots' was Kunta Kinte.

Malachi Kirby

Suddenly, I was interesting to girls. I wasn't just a Kunta Kinte.

Rob Pilatus

Playing Kunta Kinte is an emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental journey.

Malachi Kirby

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

Malachi Kirby

One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.

Malachi Kirby

I was thinking, 'What is it about Kunta Kinte that allowed him to live such a long life?' For me, what came down to it was his spirit and his knowledge of self.

Malachi Kirby

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

Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents.

Malachi Kirby

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

Louis Gossett, Jr.

The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.

Eugene Jarecki

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

Noam Chomsky

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

Ronald Reagan

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

Sayyid Qutb

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.

Robert Warshow

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Northrop Frye

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