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The money I have made and will be making means nothing to me compared to the fact that about half of the black people I meet - ranging from the most sophisticated to the least sophisticated - say to me, 'I'm proud of you.' I feel strongly about always earning that and never letting black people down.

~ Alex Haley

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The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.

~ Alex Haley

Find Go Happier Problem Sea Than Time Why Write

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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

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Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.

~ Alex Haley

Another Book Decade Follow Four Frustrations Had Having Me Myself Passed Private Roots Second Serious Six Two Without Years

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We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.

~ Alex Haley

Black Boy Cancer City Cure Girl Grow Grow Up Growing Growing Up Inner Inner City Know Little Might Some Them Up Us

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Alex Haley

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11 August, 1921

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10 February, 1992

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