top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Large families are communities unto their own."
Author Name
Personal Development
"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall."
People
"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."
Society
"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
Family
"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
Family
"Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you."
Reality
"When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."
Family
"Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help."
Help
"In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it."
Praise
"I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less."
Love
"Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people."
Family
bottom of page