Alex HaleyRoots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.331Humanity
Alex HaleyRacism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.376Humanity
Alex HaleyUnless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.377Love
Alex HaleyYou don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.377Life
Alex HaleyAnytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. ✨ A Touch of Class by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.368Time
Alex HaleyMy 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.347HopeHumanity
Alex HaleyBeginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.369Hope
Alex HaleyYou have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.325LifeTruth
Alex HaleyMany 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. In most … ▶325HumanityReadingTruth
Alex HaleyIs 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 … ▶315Death
Alex HaleyIn all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from. ✨ Alex Haley (2007). Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's R… ▶293Reading
Alex HaleyI 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.305LoveReadingTruth
Alex HaleyNever completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped. ✨ Alex Haley (2016). Roots: The Saga of an American Family, … ▶262Thought
Alex HaleyIn the bush, trust no one you don't know.306Truth
Alex HaleyYou can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.273Love
Alex HaleyWhen you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. ✨ Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite in TIME magazine, Februar… ▶251Time
Alex HaleyIf you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it mig… ▶285Reading
Alex HaleyHistory is written by winners.275Humanity
Alex HaleyIn every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ✨ Traits of a Healthy Family by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.221HopeTime
Alex HaleyI 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… ▶232Reading
Alex HaleyI wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure.… ▶265DeathHopeHumanity
Alex HaleyThe way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that he… ▶288Life
Alex HaleyIt's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.211Politics
Alex HaleyTying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.255Politics
Alex HaleyIn my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. ✨ A Kwanzaa Celebration by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.224Life
Alex HaleyEvery death is like the burning of a library.236Death
Alex HaleyEarly 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. ✨ Roots ch… ▶236Reading
Alex HaleyThe main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.249Philosophy
Alex HaleyI acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.216Death
Alex HaleyWhen you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. ✨ Alex Haley (2016). Roots: The Saga of an American Family, p.327, Da Capo Press239Politics
