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I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people.

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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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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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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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