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> [Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/most-of-us-prefer-to-be-as-quiet-as-possible-about-giving-because/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

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## More by Alex Haley

> [I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/i-tell-younger-writers-that-indeed-it-is-devastating-to-be-rejected/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/if-you-re-blessed-to-do-something-like-roots-you-find-yourself/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/i-think-from-what-i-personally-know-i-am-really-quite-proud-of-most/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [In the bush, trust no one you don't know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/in-the-bush-trust-no-one-you-don-t-know/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/either-you-deal-with-what-is-the-reality-or-you-can-be-sure-that-the/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/i-know-juffure-was-a-british-trading-post-and-my-portrait-of-the/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/i-look-at-my-books-the-way-parents-look-at-their-children-the-fact/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/never-completely-encircle-your-enemy-leave-him-some-escape-for-he/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/i-can-t-feel-irish-to-save-my-soul-but-it-s-a-fact/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [Most of the people I've met who are black in other countries look up to the blacks in this country. Though they may talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/most-of-the-people-i-ve-met-who-are-black-in-other-countries-look-up/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/early-in-the-spring-of-1750-in-the-village-of-juffure-four-days/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [“nightly boiling and then cooling a broth of freshly pounded fudano leaves in which she soaked her feat -and the pale palms of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/nightly-boiling-and-then-cooling-a-broth-of-freshly-pounded-fudano/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/in-all-of-us-there-is-a-hunger-marrow-deep-to-know-our-heritage-to/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/if-you-think-about-it-there-s-not-a-religious-group-there-s-not-a/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

> [Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-haley/is-this-how-you-repay-my-goodness-with-badness-cried-the-boy-of/)

[Alex Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-haley/)

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