If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you. Alex Haley Read Quote
Most of the people I’ve met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here. Alex Haley Read Quote
We don’t know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us – if we let them do it. Alex Haley Read Quote
If you think about it, there’s not a religious group, there’s not a nationalistic group, there’s not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them. Alex Haley Read Quote
My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject. Alex Haley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the portrait I gave was true of nearly all the other villages in Gambia. I, we, need a place called Eden. My people need Pilgrim’s Rock. Alex Haley Read Quote
He was always – I like to say of Malcolm – he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn’t that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him. Alex Haley Read Quote
To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within ‘Roots’ is from either my African or American families’ carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents. Alex Haley Read Quote
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow ‘Roots.’ Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow ‘Roots,’ I was having serious private frustrations with myself. Alex Haley Read Quote
