“In this country … we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have — where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people.”

—  Alex Haley

TIME interview (1977)

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African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist 1921–1992

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