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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Journalist
Military Personnel
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Ithica
New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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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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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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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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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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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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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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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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The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
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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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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 don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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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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Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
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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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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be pointed at as one of those creatures down their who didn't take advantage of this or that, who didn't climb and rise and so forth.
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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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