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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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History is written by winners.
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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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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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Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
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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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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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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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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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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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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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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