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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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Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.
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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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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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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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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.
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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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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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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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