Name	Alex Haley
Height	5' 10½"  (179 cm)
Date of Birth	August 11, 1921
Birthplace	Ithaca, New York
Star Sign	Leo
Died	February 10, 1992 (Aged 71)
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Black
Occupation	Personality
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Quotes

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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

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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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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

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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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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

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

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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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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

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