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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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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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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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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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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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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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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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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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