wanting a better life Quotes

“I wanted a life in which there was a constant oneness of feeling with others, in which the basic emotions of life were shared.”

“I had lived so utterly isolated a life that the club filled for me a need that could not be imagined by the white members who were becoming disgusted with it, whose normal living had given them what I was so desperately trying to get.”

“As individuals we tend to climb to our levels of incompetence. We behave as though up is better and more is better, and yet all around us we see the tragic victims of this mindless escalation.”

“I came west in search of a better life, but my American dream was turned into a nightmare by poverty and hardship and greed.”