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If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
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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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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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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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