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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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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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The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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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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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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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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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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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'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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The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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