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Alex Haley Quotes & Sayings

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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. — Alex Haley

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it. — Alex Haley

Every death is like the burning of a library. — Alex Haley

Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley — Alex Haley

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down. — 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

Through this flesh, which is us, we are you, and you are us! — Alex Haley

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response. — Alex Haley

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. — Alex Haley

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European. — Alex Haley

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life. — 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

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans. — Alex Haley

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle. — 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

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped. — Alex Haley

I don't mind shaking hands with a human being, are you one? — Alex Haley

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw ... — Alex Haley

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. — Alex Haley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. — Alex Haley

History is written by winners. — Alex Haley

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world. — Alex Haley

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred. — Alex Haley

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. — Alex Haley

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. — Alex Haley

Playboy: Why are you smiling? Thompson: Am I smiling? Yeah, I guess I am ... well, it's fun to lose it sometimes. — Alex Haley

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact. — Alex Haley

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities. — Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society ... it is not automatic.
It is learned behavior toward persons with
dissimilar physical characteristics. — Alex Haley

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black. — 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

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is. — Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know. — Alex Haley

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. — Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down. — Alex Haley

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. — Alex Haley

It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness. — Alex Haley

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. — Alex Haley

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it. — Alex Haley

Find the good, and praise it. — Alex Haley

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known. — Alex Haley