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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people.
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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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I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
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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.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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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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Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.
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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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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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History is written by winners.
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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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