Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic s… - Alex Haley

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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

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Alex Haley

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Alexander Palmer Haley (11 August 1921 – 10 February 1992) was an American writer best known for his work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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Native Name: Alexander Murray Palmer Haley

Also Known As: Alex

Alternative Names: Alexander Palmer Haley • Alexander M. P. Haley • A. M. P. Haley • A. Haley • Haley • Alexander Haley • Alex Palmer Haley • Haley, Alexander Murray Palmer • Haley, Alex • Хейли, Алекс • Алекс Хейли • А. Хейли

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So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this story of our people can help alleviate the legacies of the fact that preponderantly the histories have been written by the winners.

Through this flesh, which is us, we are you, and you are us!

It is often the way of the world that goodness is often repaid with badness.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. - Alex Haley

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