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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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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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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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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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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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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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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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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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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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I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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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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