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History is written by winners.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
Biographer
Genealogist
Historian
Journalist
Military Personnel
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Ithica
New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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History

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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.
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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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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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 main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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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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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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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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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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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 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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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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