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"I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additi… - Alex Haley
"I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.
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About Alex Haley
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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Also Known As
Native Name:
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Also Known As:
Alex
Alternative Names:
Alexander Palmer Haley
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Alexander M. P. Haley
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A. M. P. Haley
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A. Haley
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Haley
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Alexander Haley
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Alex Palmer Haley
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Haley, Alexander Murray Palmer
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Haley, Alex
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Хейли, Алекс
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Алекс Хейли
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А. Хейли
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Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars — caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. He will never forget. He will never get completely over the memory of the bars.
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