Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex HaleyRead
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and appreciating the positive aspects in writing and life.
Alex Haley invites us to focus on the good in our thoughts and expressions through writing. His intention to praise positivity encourages others to discover beauty and virtue in the world, suggesting that the act of writing should be a reflection of the good that exists around us.
In practice
A motivational speech about the impact of positive storytelling.
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
These designers have no reserve. They've chosen a path and thrown themselves onto it head first, regardless of everything. Whether or not their designs are sellable or vulgar. As long as it's new and people talk about it. That is the truth.
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done that. And I have always, whether I needed to pay the rent or not, I've always turned down roles which I thought were stereotypical. And so when I look at my body of work in that respect, I am really happy. Because I feel my work does say something positive and that was what I always set out to do.
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