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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.
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 time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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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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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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The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
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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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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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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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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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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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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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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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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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