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

- Alex Haley

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, …

- Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

- Alex Haley

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

- Alex Haley

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

- Alex Haley

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

- Alex Haley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

- Alex Haley

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

- Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

- Alex Haley