Alex Haley Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

  Alex Haley

  Library, Burning Down, Persons

• Every death is like the burning of a library.

  Alex Haley

  Inspirational, Library, Burning

• I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

  Alex Haley

  Book, Reading, Thinking

• I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

  Alex Haley

  Library, Today, Debt

• 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

  Real, Men, Understanding

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