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Quote by Alex Haley
My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red,

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

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

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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

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? – Immanuel Kant

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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldnt write anything without hope in it. – Oscar Hammerstein II

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Theres no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, Id sit down and doze off. – Robert Smith

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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. – Simone Weil

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. – Confucius, Analects

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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I dont trust myself. I need that balance. – Daniel Craig

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I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. Shes the sweetest woman in the world. Im looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. Im looking for honesty and a big heart. – Jason Derulo

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