"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."

-- Henry Hampton

#People Quotes #Needs Quotes #Poor Quotes

“That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every step bespoke the glorious and yearning bullshit of men's souls.”

Source : Matthew Sharpe (2007). “Jamestown: A Novel”, p.176, Soft Skull Press
“I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.”

Source : Interview with A.D. Amorosi, mycitypaper.com. June 12, 2003.
“... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.”
“Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.”
“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.”
“The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.”
“I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.”
“Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.”

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