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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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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. – Alex Haley

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At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. – Stanislav Grof

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The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living. – Thabo Mbeki

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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

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Whatever I do, I hope its quality, I hope its something thats class. – Garth Brooks

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“Correct” spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. – H.L. Mencken, The American Language, SupplementII: An Inquiry into the Developme

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Its just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali

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