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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.
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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Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the 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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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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History is written by winners.
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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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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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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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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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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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