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

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

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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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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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It took him a long time, and a great many more parties, to realize that they didn’t live that way, that it was all strangely unreal, a kind of beautiful dream the white folks were having, a lie they were telling themselves: that goodness can come from badness, that it’s possible to be civilized with one another without treating as human beings those whose blood, sweat, and mother’s milk made possible the life of privilege they led.

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