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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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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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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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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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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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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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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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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I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.
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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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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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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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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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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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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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