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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
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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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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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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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