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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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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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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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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
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I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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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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I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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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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