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Ancestry Quote by Alex Haley

“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.” quote by Alex Haley — Download Open image

“When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.”

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I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

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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…

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I think from what I personally know, I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have 'made it,' who…

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In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

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I know Juffure was a British trading post and my portrait of the village bears no resemblance to the way it was. But the…

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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…

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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

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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…

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Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild…

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“nightly boiling and then cooling a broth of freshly pounded fudano leaves in which she soaked her feat -and the pale palms of her…

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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

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Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

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High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

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Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was…

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Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

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I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods.

Kyle MacLachlan

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“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for…

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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be…

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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

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The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He…

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Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

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