“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”

—  Alex Haley

As quoted in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations (1993) by Dorothy Winbush Riley.

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African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist 1921–1992

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