If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to … - Alex Haley

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If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

Alex Haley

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

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History is written by winners.

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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

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But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

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Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

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I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.

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