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Alex Haley Quote: “It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.”

51. “It is the way of the world that goodness is often repaid by badness.”

Alex Haley Quote: “The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.”

52. “The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.”

Alex Haley Quote: “Fact, I specks his mammy hatched him!”

53. “Fact, I specks his mammy hatched him!”

Alex Haley Quote: “It was the first time the name had ever been spoken as this child’s name, for Omoro’s people felt that each human being should be the first to know who he was.”

54. “It was the first time the name had ever been spoken as this child’s name, for Omoro’s people felt that each human being should be the first to know who he was.”

Alex Haley Quote: “If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.”

55. “If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.”

Alex Haley Quote: “Let me tell you something: I am a man.”

56. “Let me tell you something: I am a man.”

Alex Haley Quote: “And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’ Kunta liked that, but he couldn’t understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.”

57. “And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’ Kunta liked that, but he couldn’t understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.”

Alex Haley Quote: “He wondered if she also knew how strange and sad he found it to hear her talking – as so many others did – about ‘usn’s’,′ and acting as if se owned the plantation she lived on instead of the other way around.”

58. “He wondered if she also knew how strange and sad he found it to hear her talking – as so many others did – about ‘usn’s’,′ and acting as if se owned the plantation she lived on instead of the other way around.”

Alex Haley Quote: “But then, as far as I know, as far as I’ve studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.”

59. “But then, as far as I know, as far as I’ve studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.”

Alex Haley Quote: “Somehow his praying and his studying made it all right to mix with them. That way, it seemed to him he could remain himself without having to remain by himself.”

60. “Somehow his praying and his studying made it all right to mix with them. That way, it seemed to him he could remain himself without having to remain by himself.”

Alex Haley Quote: “It’s an hour during the week where you can just slow down.”

61. “It’s an hour during the week where you can just slow down.”

Alex Haley Quote: “I believed he had no human weaknesses or faults, and that, therefore, he could make no mistakes and that he could do no wrong. There on a Holy World hilltop, I realized how very dangerous it is for people to hold any human being in such esteem, especially to consider anyone some sort of “divinely guided” and “protected” person.”

62. “I believed he had no human weaknesses or faults, and that, therefore, he could make no mistakes and that he could do no wrong. There on a Holy World hilltop, I realized how very dangerous it is for people to hold any human being in such esteem, especially to consider anyone some sort of “divinely guided” and “protected” person.”

Alex Haley Quote: “I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.”

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

Alex Haley Quote: “Crazies always recognize each other. I think Melville said it, in a slightly different context: “Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.” Of course, we’re not talking about genius here, we’re talking about crazies – but.”

64. “Crazies always recognize each other. I think Melville said it, in a slightly different context: “Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.” Of course, we’re not talking about genius here, we’re talking about crazies – but.”

Alex Haley Quote: “I got a little tape recorder and laid it on my chest and kept describing the scene as I saw it. Just the opening scenes took about 45 minutes. I don’t know how it’s going to end, but I like it that way. If I knew how it ended, I’d lose interest in the story.”

65. “I got a little tape recorder and laid it on my chest and kept describing the scene as I saw it. Just the opening scenes took about 45 minutes. I don’t know how it’s going to end, but I like it that way. If I knew how it ended, I’d lose interest in the story.”

Alex Haley Quote: “There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.”

66. “There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.”

Alex Haley Quote: “And yet had not a pagan the right to be a pagan?”

67. “And yet had not a pagan the right to be a pagan?”

Alex Haley Quote: “I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose. – Malcom X.”

68. “I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose. – Malcom X.”

Alex Haley Quote: “Sleepless late that night, his mind still tumbling with conflicts, he recalled something Omoro had said once when Kunta had refused to let go of a choice mango after Lamin begged for a bite: “When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.”

69. “Sleepless late that night, his mind still tumbling with conflicts, he recalled something Omoro had said once when Kunta had refused to let go of a choice mango after Lamin begged for a bite: “When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.”

Alex Haley Quote: “Mingo went toward his cabin, but turning at the door, he looked back at George. “Hear me, boy! You thinks you’s sump’n special wid massa, but nothin’ don’t make no difference to mad, scared white folks! Don’t you be no fool an’ slip off nowhere till this blow over, you hear me? I mean don’t!”

70. “Mingo went toward his cabin, but turning at the door, he looked back at George. “Hear me, boy! You thinks you’s sump’n special wid massa, but nothin’ don’t make no difference to mad, scared white folks! Don’t you be no fool an’ slip off nowhere till this blow over, you hear me? I mean don’t!”

Alex Haley Quote: “I don’t mind shaking hands with a human being, are you one?”

71. “I don’t mind shaking hands with a human being, are you one?”

Alex Haley Quote: “Whole heap o’ folks, ’cludin’ me till I got grown, ain’t knowed at firs’ weren’t nobody in dis country but Indians, fishin’ an’ huntin’ an’ fightin’ one ’nother, jes’ mindin’ dey own business. Den here come l’il ol’ boat o’ white folks a-wavin’ an’ grinnin’. ‘Hey, y’all red mens! How ’bout let us come catch a bite an’ a nap ’mongst y’all an’ le’s be friends!’ Huh! I betcha nowdays dem Indians wish dey’s made dat boat look like a porcupine wid dey arrows!”

72. “Whole heap o’ folks, ’cludin’ me till I got grown, ain’t knowed at firs’ weren’t nobody in dis country but Indians, fishin’ an’ huntin’ an’ fightin’ one ’nother, jes’ mindin’ dey own business. Den here come l’il ol’ boat o’ white folks a-wavin’ an’ grinnin’. ‘Hey, y’all red mens! How ’bout let us come catch a bite an’ a nap ’mongst y’all an’ le’s be friends!’ Huh! I betcha nowdays dem Indians wish dey’s made dat boat look like a porcupine wid dey arrows!”

Alex Haley Quote: “He thought that it was impossible for a massa to perceive that being owned by anyone could never be enjoyable.”

73. “He thought that it was impossible for a massa to perceive that being owned by anyone could never be enjoyable.”

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