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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Ithica
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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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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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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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I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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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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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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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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