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Alex Haley
Alex Haley
American Novelist
Born: Aug 11, 1921
Died: Feb 10, 1992
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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. Alex Haley
Racism Behavior Society Dissimilar Our Characteristics Physical Toward Learned Taught Automatic Persons
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Alex Haley
Nobody Over Sort Children Little Little Children Grandparents Stardust Lives
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Alex Haley
You Reality Sure Deal Going Either
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. Alex Haley
Hope Me Man People Black Own White Digging Back Would Brown Red Feel Feet Make Tall Yellow May Roots Start
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley
Family You Every Earth Ancestry About Talking Lineage Person Start
A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others. Alex Haley
Suffering Hurt Mother Word Father Negative Example Mother And Father Pain Every Society Others Way More For Example Another Another Way Caused Person Illegitimate
He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him. Alex Haley
Nature Dramatic Everything Say He Simply Almost Like Him Always Malcolm Trying Did Just Electrical
Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here. Alex Haley
People Black Country Met Other Other Countries Par Though Blacks Physically Simply Partake Countries Look Most Talk Because Up Anxious May Who Differently Things Here
To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents. Alex Haley
Best Knowledge History Every Carefully Preserved Statement Able Documents Within Lineage Been Families Effort American Oral African American Families Either Which Much Roots

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