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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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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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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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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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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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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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 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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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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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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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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