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“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”

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“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”

Alex Haley

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AuthorAlex Haley

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Born11 August 1921

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Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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