Alex Haley

Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth11 August 1921
CityIthaca, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Many of us do this to develop this muscle of mindfulness, which tends to be atrophied.
Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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 love the less successful one any less.
We try to emphasize the fact that we are not religiously affiliated.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be pointed at as one of those creatures down their who didn't take advantage of this or that, who didn't climb and rise and so forth.
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
Racism and hatred are synonymous.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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.