Alex Haley Quotes

History is written by winners.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

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

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

The way to succeed is never quit. That’s it. But really be humble about it. … You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

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.

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

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

In the bush, trust no one you don’t know.