“In
all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know
who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching
knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in
life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting
loneliness.”
- Alex Haley, born 11 August 1921.
American writer best known as the author of the popular 1976 bestseller
Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the co-author of The
Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965). Much of "Roots" was written at a little house in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.
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