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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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Ithica
New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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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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Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.
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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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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.
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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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History is written by winners.
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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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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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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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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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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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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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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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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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I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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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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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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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
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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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