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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex Haley
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Alex Haley
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Alex Haley
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Alex Haley
Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Alex Haley
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
Alex Haley
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley
Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. "Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.
Alex Haley
If I had been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this.
Alex Haley
In this country ... we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have - where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people.
Alex Haley
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you.
Alex Haley
It's sort of like Stardust - the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it.
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
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 am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.
Alex Haley
I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years.
Alex Haley
This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
Alex Haley
Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.
Alex Haley
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between "being a writer” and writing.
Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer.
Alex Haley
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