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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

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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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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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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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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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