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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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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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I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
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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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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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History is written by winners.
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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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You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be pointed at as one of those creatures down their who didn't take advantage of this or that, who didn't climb and rise and so forth.
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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 know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
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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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
Alex Haley
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.
Alex Haley
