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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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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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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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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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History is written by winners.
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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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