Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?โ cried the boy. โOf course,โ said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. โThat is the way of the world.
Alex HaleyThe anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
Alex HaleyThere was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
Alex HaleyIn all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
Alex HaleyI certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.
Alex Haley