Alex Haley Quotes

There Was A Great Deal Of Inbreeding Between The Indians And The Slaves. Genetically Speaking, Black People Are Some Part Black, Some Part European.

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 Someone Like Muhammad Ali Every Day, Then It Might Giver You Some Understanding Of The Man.

But Then, As Far As I Know, As Far As I've Studied Or Heard Or Picked Up, It Seems That This Type Of Thing Is A Curse Against Mankind.

It's An Hour During The Week Where You Can Just Slow Down.

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 Tell Younger Writers That Indeed It Is Devastating To Be Rejected. You Feel Like The Bottom Dropped Out Of Your World.

I Think Most People When You Say Slavery Tend To See A Group Of Anonymous People Pulling Cotton Sacks In Great Plantation Fields, And That Is Largely True.

Most Of The Things That Are Asked Of Me As A Representative Black Person, Would Suggest Never Are We Equal Americans.

I Am Really Quite Proud Of Most Of The People I " Know Who Have "made It," Who Do Things To Help People.

I Get Interviewed A Lot, And I Found Myself Listening To What The Interviewer Is Asking Me, I'm Analyzing What I'm Being Asked More Than My Response.

Indeed Optimists Rather Than Defeatists Have Produced The Results For Which Serious Genealogical Research Is Best Known.

The Anti-blackness Has Generated New Forms Of Youth Involvement In Anti-whiteness, Which In Some Cases Is Appalling.