Alex Haley: Good

Alex Haley was African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on good.

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“Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley”

“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.”

Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Source: Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”

Alex Haley

As quoted in A Kwanzaa Celebration (1995) by Angela Shelf Medearis, p. 154.
This motto appears on the emblem of the Medium Endurance Cutter USCGC Alex Haley, named after the writer, as "FIND THE GOOD AND PRAISE IT". It is declared to have been his personal motto.
Variant: Find the good — and praise it.