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History is written by winners.

Alex Haley

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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
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Ithica
New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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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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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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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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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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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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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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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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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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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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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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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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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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