Rootless Quotes

The source and cause of this need for reaction can be attributed to white contempt and neglect. The historical contempt that the white race held for the Negroes has created a group of rootless degraded people. - Andrew Goodman

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. - Cornel West

In fiction, you're always looking for conflict, and the salesman is seen as this rootless person ... who has the style and ability to enter any community to make the sale. But the salesman is not there to put down roots. He's there to use the community, which implies fraud and seduction. - Joe Lauinger