Alex Haley Quotes

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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 have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Adoption, Vacuums

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

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  Inspirational, Family, Meaningful

  "Traits of a Healthy Family" by Dolores Curran, (p. 199), 1985.

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• Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

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  Library, Burning Down, Persons

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• The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

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  Success, Perseverance, Humble

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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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  Success, Reality, Alex

  "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations". Book by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1993.

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• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

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  Educational, Hands, Fists

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.327, Da Capo Press

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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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  Unique Characteristics, Racism, Racist

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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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  Life, Children, Grandmother

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

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• You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

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  Self Esteem, Knows

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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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  Dream, People, What If

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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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  Heritage, Who We Are, Lineage

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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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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  Wisdom, Exercise, Fate

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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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  Funny, Animal, Turtles

  "A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

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• You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

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  Inspirational, Acceptance, Facts

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• We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

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  Wise, Men, Suffering

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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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  Family, Talking, Alex

  "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

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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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  Fighting, Enemy, Ifs

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.130, Da Capo Press

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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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  Dream, Giving Up, Attitude

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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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  Writing, Black History, Alex

  "A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.

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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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  Country, Lying, Men

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• The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

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  Hustle, World, Remember

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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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  Men, Roots, Yellow

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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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  Thinking, People, Culture

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• Every death is like the burning of a library.

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  Inspirational, Library, Burning

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• History is written by winners.

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  Winner, Written

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