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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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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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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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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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History is written by winners.
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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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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
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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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Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
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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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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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I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.
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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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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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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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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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