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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 was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

— Alex Haley Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976)

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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.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

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“You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

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This is the Shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

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