"For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself."

--Norman Mailer
The Spooky Art, 2003

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"If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us."

---Franz Kafka
(adapted)

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Read this quote and explain what is the connotation of the word Fly. And explain what this quote means, re-write it in your own words.

Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King, Jr. could march, Martin Luther King, Jr. marched so that Jessie Jackson could run, Jessie Jackson ran so that Barack Obama could win, Barack Obama won so that our children and grandchild could fly.
------Unknown

"I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I see more of the truth"

--Nicolas Cage, as quoted in "His Truth is Out There"
from Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2000

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"Good literature appeals to our intelligence and imagination, not merely to our curiosity"

---E.M. Forster

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

----Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength to love, 1963

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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to loose everything else" ---Bernadette Devlin The Price of My Soul, 1969

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