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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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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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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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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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Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
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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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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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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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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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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
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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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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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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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