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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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History is written by winners.
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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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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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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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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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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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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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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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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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