“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
– Marcus Garvey
“You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
– Malcolm X
“Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’”
– Angela Davis
“Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.”
– I.M. Pei
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
– John Muir
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I don’t care what baggage they dragged over the ocean. They have no right to make me carry it the rest of my life.”
– Abigail Hing Wen, Loveboat, Taipei
“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.”
– Mohsin Hamid
“Strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly searched out.”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.”
– Anaïs Nin
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fts the sight.”
– John Berger, Ways of Seeing
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
– Mark Twain
“Being American is more than a pride we inherit; it’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.”
– Amanda Gorman, “The Hill We Climb”