Alex Haley Quotes

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.
He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him.
I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the portrait I gave was true of nearly all the other villages in Gambia. I, we, need a place called Eden. My people need Pilgrim's Rock.
I stand by 'Roots' as symbol of the fate of my people.
I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who do things to help people.
If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.
If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.
If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. But you're just swamped.
Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.
My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.
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Alex Haley
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11 August, 1921
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10 February, 1992
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