129 Quotes by Alex Haley

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

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

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

All of that Hollywood stuff! Like these women wanting men to pick them up and carry them across thresholds and some of them weigh more than you do. I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie and television addicted women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and dancing then getting mad when a poor, scraggly husband comes in tired and sweaty from working like a dog all day, looking for some food. ~Malcolm X

Find the good—and praise it.

And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

He thought that it was impossible for a massa to perceive that being owned by anyone could never be enjoyable.

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

Find the good, and praise it.