There was a great
There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European. Alex Haley
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There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European. Alex Haley
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man. Alex Haley
But then, as far as I know, as far as I’ve studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind. Alex Haley
It’s an hour during the week where you can just slow down. Alex Haley
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa – where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground. Alex Haley
You don’t spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It’s a small service, and there’s a lot of esprit de corps. Alex Haley
I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world. Alex Haley
I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true. Alex Haley
I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people. Alex Haley
I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I’m analyzing what I’m being asked more than my response. Alex Haley