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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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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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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
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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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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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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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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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