All Alex Haley Quotes
- When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. Clench
- Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Deal
- Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. Appreciate
- Every death is like the burning of a library. Burning
- When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Ancestry
- In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. 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… Any
- Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual. Family
- You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service,… Corps
- I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even… Anyone
- Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big… Affair
- I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history… Culture
- Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was… Africa
- You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is. Enslave
- In the bush, trust no one you don't know. Bush
- Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped. Completely
- It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down. Down
- I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is… Acknowledge
- If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of… Ali
- History is written by winners. Funny
- In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from. All
- Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate… Academic
- That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. Becomes
- In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Bridge
- Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Children