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I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

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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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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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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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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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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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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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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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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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Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
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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.
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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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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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Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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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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