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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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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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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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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 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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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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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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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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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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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Every death is like the burning of a library.
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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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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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.
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