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Alex Haley Quotes

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

"My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations". Book by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1993.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.327, Da Capo Press

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 (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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

"A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

"Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

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

Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.130, Da Capo Press

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

"A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.