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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
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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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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I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.
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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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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 have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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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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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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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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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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Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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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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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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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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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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