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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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New York
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
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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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History is written by winners.
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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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If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.
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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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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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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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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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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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 don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
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We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.
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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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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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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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