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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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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. – Garrett Hardin

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Family

To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I cant think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something. – Ted Allen

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Family

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. – James Brown

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Family

In five years time Id like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. Id like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. Id like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me. – Adele

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Family

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When danger approaches, sing to it. – Arabic Proverb

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Danger

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. – Wilfred Owen

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Poetry

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship – positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way. – Rob McKenna

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positive

Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Love