"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from."

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Source : Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

Alex Haley

#Heritage Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Hunger Quotes

“It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.”
“Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.”
“I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dewâ€¦ Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”
“Iâ€™m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.”
“It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.”
“If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.”
“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster Ã la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”

Source : O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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