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

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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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. ✨ Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite in TIME magazine, February 14, 1977.
I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.
Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped. ✨ Alex Haley (2016). Roots: The Saga of an American Family, p.130, Da Capo Press
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