Alex Haley

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. ”

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

He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him. ”

The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea. ”

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them. ”