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Alex Haley quotes

American Novelist August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992

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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. Alex Haley
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking... Alex Haley
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. Alex Haley
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual. Alex Haley
He meant you no harm?" said Omoro. "He acted very friendly," said the old man, "but the cat always eats the mouse it plats with. Alex Haley
Alex Haley quote: "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past,..."
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley
Alex Haley quote: "When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you..."
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley
Alex Haley quote: "Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga..."
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. Alex Haley
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books. Alex Haley
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. Alex Haley
So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this story of our people can help alleviate the legacies of the fact that preponderantly the histories have been written by the winners. Alex Haley
Alex Haley quote: "In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good,..."
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. Alex Haley
Alex Haley quote: "Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley"
Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley Alex Haley
Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. Alex Haley
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Alex Haley

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