If you’re blessed to do something like ‘Roots’… you find yourself immersed. You’re asked to do this, to do that – all for admirable causes. But you’re just swamped. Alex Haley Read Quote
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The problem is to find the time to write. That’s why I go to sea. I couldn’t be happier than when at sea. Alex Haley Read Quote
The money I have made and will be making means nothing to me compared to the fact that about half of the black people I meet – ranging from the most sophisticated to the least sophisticated – say to me, ‘I’m proud of you.’ I feel strongly about always earning that and never letting black people down. Alex Haley Read Quote
I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have ‘made it,’ who do things to help people. Alex Haley Read Quote
A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is ‘illegitimate.’ But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others. Alex Haley Read Quote
