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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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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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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In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
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But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.
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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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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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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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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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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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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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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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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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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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I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.
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I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.
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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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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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