129 Quotes by Alex Haley

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.

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

Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it’s publicized that we do something, if it’s something of the nature of giving, we’ll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose. – Malcom X.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country – to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country’s very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

It was the first time the name had ever been spoken as this child’s name, for Omoro’s people felt that each human being should be the first to know who he was.

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, and there’s a lot of esprit de corps.

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

That’s what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.