Alex Haley Quotes

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

Family, Future, Past

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Alex Haley

Reality, Sure, Either

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

Children, Lives, Nobody

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

Society, Racism, Learned

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

Good, Writing, Find

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

Love, Successful, Children

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

Hope, May, Black

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

Help, Top, Turtle

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

Family, Person, Start

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

Family, Roots, Symbolic

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 11, 1921

Died: February 10, 1992

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