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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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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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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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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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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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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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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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