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
Racism and hatred are synonymous.
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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.
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.