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
Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
We try to emphasize the fact that we are not religiously affiliated.
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.
if not for oral history, my uncle would not have pursued the history that became the 'Roots' project.
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.