Fence post Quotes by Alex Haley

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

— Alex Haley

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…

— Alex Haley

I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who…

— Alex Haley

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

— Alex Haley

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

— Alex Haley

I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the…

— Alex Haley

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…

— Alex Haley

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

— Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

— Alex Haley

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…

— Alex Haley

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild…

— Alex Haley

“nightly boiling and then cooling a broth of freshly pounded fudano leaves in which she soaked her feat -and the pale palms of her…

— Alex Haley

In 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

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…

— Alex Haley

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That…

— Alex Haley