Alex Haley Quotes


If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. But you're just swamped.


Citations

Haley, Alex. Quoted in The Washington Post, 11 Feb. 1992, p. B1.

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Alex Haley
Alex Haley
  • Born: August 11, 1921
  • Died: February 10, 1992
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.