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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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History is written by winners.
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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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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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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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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 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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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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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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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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Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.
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I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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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 acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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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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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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