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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

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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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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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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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Family
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The family is a haven in a heartless world. – Attributed to Christopher Lasch

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Family

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think theres a point where one says, thats for family, thats for me. – Julie Andrews

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Family

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families arent dying. Theyre merging into big conglomerates. – Erma Bombeck

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Family

I would rather start a family than finish one. – Don Marquis

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Family

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Libraries and books are a big part of my life. Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries…. There were no parents there, no one I knew, and the solitude was a great relief. – Henry Rollins, “Empowerment Through Libraries,” November 2013, LAWeekly [Swoon!

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. – Mark Twain

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Luck

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadnt occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. – Sargent Shriver

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Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. Thats what technology can do. – Dean Kamen

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Future