Alex Haley Quotes

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

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

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

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

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

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

Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley

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

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

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