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Alex Haley Inspirational Quotes (56)

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Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.
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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.
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You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be pointed at as one of those creatures down their who didn't take advantage of this or that, who didn't climb and rise and so forth.
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The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.
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There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
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I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.
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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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History is written by winners.
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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.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
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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.
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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