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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.
Alex Haley
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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people.
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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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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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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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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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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I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
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History is written by winners.
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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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I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.
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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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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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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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