Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
Alex HaleyWhen you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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 HaleyThe anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
Alex Haley