Why Are We Poor Quotes

“There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great art has nationality, an imprimatur achieved with the keenest remembrance of time and place.”
― F. Sionil Jose

“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he is to endure.”
― F. Sionil Jose