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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 portrait I gave was true of nearly all the other villages in Gambia. I, we, need a place called Eden. My people need Pilgrim's Rock.
— Alex Haley
Tags: true, way, village, people

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If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.
— Alex Haley
Tags: negative, never, you, good
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
— Alex Haley
Tags: just, roots, people, family
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 differently, they are anxious to partake of this country simply because things in their country are not physically on par with what they are here.
— Alex Haley
Tags: country, look, black, people
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
— Alex Haley
Tags: grandparents, over, nobody, children
We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for all of us - if we let them do it.
— Alex Haley
Tags: city, black, boy, girl
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