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

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Source : "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.

Alex Haley

#Family Quotes #Talking Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.”
“I want to live quietly.”
“The game honors toughness”
“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”
“"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."”
“Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.”
“Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.”
“Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.”

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