Quote

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.

Alex Haley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
Biographer
Genealogist
Historian
Journalist
Military Personnel
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Ithica
New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
Asking
Asked
Listening
Found
Interviewer
Interviewers
Interviewed
Analyzing
Response

More quotes by Alex Haley

Image
In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
Alex Haley
Image
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
Alex Haley
Image
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
Alex Haley
Image
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.
Alex Haley
Image
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.
Alex Haley
Image
If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
Alex Haley
Image
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
Alex Haley
Image
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
Alex Haley
Image
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Alex Haley
Image
You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
Alex Haley
Image
I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people.
Alex Haley
Image
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
Alex Haley
Image
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
Alex Haley
Image
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
Alex Haley
Image
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.
Alex Haley
Image
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
Alex Haley
Image
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.
Alex Haley
Image
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
Alex Haley
Image
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
Alex Haley
Image
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
Alex Haley