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Quote by Alex Haley
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are t

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

Other quotes by Alex Haley

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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Hope
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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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Grandparents Day
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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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Society
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst. – Marge Kennedy

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Family

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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Family

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. – Charles Alexander Eastman

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Family

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? Im constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that Ive been on. – Madonna Ciccone

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Family

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I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. – Sharon Stone

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Failure is natures plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. – Napolean Hill

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. – P. J. ORourke

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