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	[[File:Alex Haley speaker at University of Texas at Arlington's Texas Hall (10011730).jpg~~\|thumb\|~~ \|thumb\|Find the [[good]] — and [[praise]] it.]]		[[File:Alex Haley speaker at University of Texas at Arlington's Texas Hall (10011730).jpg\|thumb\|Find the [[good]] — and [[praise]] it.]]
	'''[[w:Alex Haley\|Alexander Palmer Haley]]''' ([[11 August]] [[1921]] – [[10 February]] [[1992]]) was an American writer best known for his work ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''.		'''[[w:Alex Haley\|Alexander Palmer Haley]]''' ([[11 August]] [[1921]] – [[10 February]] [[1992]]) was an American writer best known for his work ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''.

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	* '''The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.'''		* '''The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.'''
	** As quoted in ''Traits of a Healthy Family'' (~~1985~~) by Dolores Curran, p. ~~199~~.		** As quoted in ''Traits of a Healthy Family'' (1983) by Dolores Curran, p. 226.

	* '''Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.'''		* '''Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.'''

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	[[File:Alex ~~haley~~ US ~~coast~~ ~~guard~~.~~png~~\|thumb\|~~right~~\|Find the good — and praise it.]]		[[File:Alex Haley speaker at University of Texas at Arlington's Texas Hall (10011730).jpg\|thumb\| \|thumb\|Find the [[good]] — and [[praise]] it.]]
	'''[[w:Alex Haley\|Alexander Palmer Haley]]''' ([[11 August]] [[1921]] – [[10 February]] [[1992]]) was an American writer best known for his work ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''.		'''[[w:Alex Haley\|Alexander Palmer Haley]]''' ([[11 August]] [[1921]] – [[10 February]] [[1992]]) was an American writer best known for his work ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Home and Memorial.jpg \|thumb~~\|right~~\|Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Home and Memorial.jpg \|thumb\|Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.]]
	[[File:~~USCGC~~ Alex ~~Haley~~.~~jpg~~\|thumb~~\|right~~\|You’ve got to want to write … not want to be a writer.]]		[[File:Alex haley US coast guard.png\|thumb\|You’ve got to want to write … not want to be a writer.]]
			[[File:USCGC Alex Haley.jpg\|thumb\|You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you … It's a small service, and there's a lot of ''esprit de corps''.]]

	* '''The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.'''		* '''The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.'''
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	=== ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots : The Saga of an American Family]]'' (1976) ===		=== ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots : The Saga of an American Family]]'' (1976) ===
	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Historic Marker.jpg\|thumb~~\|right~~\|Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Historic Marker.jpg\|thumb\|Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.]]

	* '''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.'''		* '''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.'''
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	=== ''Time'' interview (1977) ===		=== ''Time'' interview (1977) ===
	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Memorial.jpg\|thumb~~\|right~~\|When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Memorial.jpg\|thumb\|When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer.]]
	:<small>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914825-1,00.html "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in ''Time'' magazine (14 February 1977)] </small>		:<small>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914825-1,00.html "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in ''Time'' magazine (14 February 1977)] </small>

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	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Historic Marker.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Historic Marker.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.]]

	* '''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.'''		* '''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.'''
	** Ch. 1, first lines.		** Ch. 1, first lines.

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	==Quotes about Alex Haley==		==Quotes about Alex Haley==
			*I still miss [[James Baldwin]] and [[Alex Haley]] and the loud talking, shouting, laughing, crying weekends that we shared.
			**[[Maya Angelou]] ''Letter to My Daughter'' (2009) p 107

	*Alex Haley's taking us back through time to the village of his ancestors is an act of faith and courage, but this book is also an act of love, and it is this which makes it haunting…"Roots" is a study of continuities, of consequences, of how a people perpetuate themselves, how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one-the action of love, or the effect of the absence of love, in time. It suggests, with great power, how each of us, however unconsciously, can't but be the vehicle of the history which has produced us. Well, we can perish in this vehicle, children, or we can move on up the road.		*Alex Haley's taking us back through time to the village of his ancestors is an act of faith and courage, but this book is also an act of love, and it is this which makes it haunting…"Roots" is a study of continuities, of consequences, of how a people perpetuate themselves, how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one-the action of love, or the effect of the absence of love, in time. It suggests, with great power, how each of us, however unconsciously, can't but be the vehicle of the history which has produced us. Well, we can perish in this vehicle, children, or we can move on up the road.
	**[[James Baldwin]], review of ''Roots'' (1976)		**[[James Baldwin]], review of ''Roots'' (1976)

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	** Ch. 1, first lines.		** Ch. 1, first lines.

	* Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son that eighth night, Omoro completed the naming ritual. Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of ~~thevillage~~, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, “''Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee.'' ”(Behold — the only thing greater than yourself).		* Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son that eighth night, Omoro completed the naming ritual. Carrying little Kunta in his strong arms, he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, “''Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee.'' ”(Behold — the only thing greater than yourself).
	** Ch. 1		** Ch. 1

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	== External links ==		== External links ==
	{{wikipedia}}		{{wikipedia}}
			{{Commonscat}}
	* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm Biography]		* [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahaley.htm Biography]
	* [http://www.kintehaley.org/ The Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley Foundation]		* [http://www.kintehaley.org/ The Kunta Kinte - Alex Haley Foundation]

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	==Quotes about Alex Haley==		==Quotes about Alex Haley==
			*Alex Haley's taking us back through time to the village of his ancestors is an act of faith and courage, but this book is also an act of love, and it is this which makes it haunting…"Roots" is a study of continuities, of consequences, of how a people perpetuate themselves, how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one-the action of love, or the effect of the absence of love, in time. It suggests, with great power, how each of us, however unconsciously, can't but be the vehicle of the history which has produced us. Well, we can perish in this vehicle, children, or we can move on up the road.
			**[[James Baldwin]], review of ''Roots'' (1976)

	*when Alex Haley wrote ''Roots''-and I think Roots came out the same year as ''The Woman Warrior''-when I got that book and read it, I felt, yes, those are my roots; they're not just his roots, they're not just Black people's roots, those are my roots. Those are my roots all the way to Africa. And Alex Haley gives them to me as a gift and I receive them by knowing about those roots and by reading that book and by letting all of that awareness into my consciousness and into my heart.		*when Alex Haley wrote ''Roots''-and I think Roots came out the same year as ''The Woman Warrior''-when I got that book and read it, I felt, yes, those are my roots; they're not just his roots, they're not just Black people's roots, those are my roots. Those are my roots all the way to Africa. And Alex Haley gives them to me as a gift and I receive them by knowing about those roots and by reading that book and by letting all of that awareness into my consciousness and into my heart.
	**1993 interview in ''Conversations with [[Maxine Hong Kingston]]'' (1998)		**1993 interview in ''Conversations with [[Maxine Hong Kingston]]'' (1998)

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	[[File:Alex haley US coast guard.png~~\|144px~~\|thumb\|right\|Find the good — and praise it.]]		[[File:Alex haley US coast guard.png\|thumb\|right\|Find the good — and praise it.]]
	'''[[w:Alex Haley\|Alexander Palmer Haley]]''' ([[11 August]] [[1921]] – [[10 February]] [[1992]]) was an American writer best known for his work ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''.		'''[[w:Alex Haley\|Alexander Palmer Haley]]''' ([[11 August]] [[1921]] – [[10 February]] [[1992]]) was an American writer best known for his work ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots: The Saga of an American Family]]''.

	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Home and Memorial.jpg ~~\|144px~~\|thumb\|right\|Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Home and Memorial.jpg \|thumb\|right\|Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.]]
	[[File:USCGC Alex Haley.jpg~~\|144px~~\|thumb\|right\|You’ve got to want to write … not want to be a writer.]]		[[File:USCGC Alex Haley.jpg\|thumb\|right\|You’ve got to want to write … not want to be a writer.]]

	* '''The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.'''		* '''The family is our refuge and our springboard; nourished on it, we can advance to new horizons. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.'''
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	=== ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots : The Saga of an American Family]]'' (1976) ===		=== ''[[w:Roots: The Saga of an American Family\|Roots : The Saga of an American Family]]'' (1976) ===
	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Historic Marker.jpg~~\|144px~~\|thumb\|right\|Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Historic Marker.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot.]]

	* '''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.'''		* '''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.'''
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	=== ''Time'' interview (1977) ===		=== ''Time'' interview (1977) ===
	[[File:Henning Alex Haley Memorial.jpg~~\|144px~~\|thumb\|right\|When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer.]]		[[File:Henning Alex Haley Memorial.jpg\|thumb\|right\|When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. We all have it; it's a great equalizer.]]
	:<small>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914825-1,00.html "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in ''Time'' magazine (14 February 1977)] </small>		:<small>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914825-1,00.html "Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite" in ''Time'' magazine (14 February 1977)] </small>