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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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I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw...

~ Alex Haley

Find the good, and praise it.

~ Alex Haley

I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence which caused many close observers of the Malcolm X phenomenon to declare in absolute seriousness that he was the only Negro in America who could either start a race riot-or stop one. When I once quoted this to him, tacitly inviting his comment, he told me tartly, I don't know if I could start one. I don't know if I'd want to stop one.

~ Alex Haley

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

~ Alex Haley