Alex Haley Quotes

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

Alex Haley

Spring

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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Laini Taylor
- Young
- Finish
- Craft
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

Edmund White
- Success
- Me
- Boy
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Samuel Butler
- Thought
- Nothing
- Absence
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Maajid Nawaz
- World
- Mind
- College
There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

Dana Carvey
- Comedy
- Film
- Looking Back
Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

Yuna