|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scott Momaday
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Scott Momaday: I think it takes a lot of resolve. You have to believe in what you're doing, and you have to do it to the best of your ability. That calls for reaching down inside yourself and coming up with resolve, determination. That may be the most important thing, as I think of it. Writing is a way of expressing your spirit. So there's much more to it than the question of material success. You are out to save your soul after all, and be the best thing that you can be in your whole being. In the Plains culture, which is my ancestral culture, and a warrior culture, there were four principles. A warrior had to live by these principles: bravery, fortitude, generosity and virtue. When I learned about those principles, they have been extremely important to me, you know. I would like to live my life according to those four things. I would like to do it in my writing, as well as in my other activities. That's what I believe. I would and do tell students, writing is the expression of your spirit, but you must live by certain ideals, and they must inform not only your writing, but the way in which you have breakfast with your mate, as well.
View Interview with Scott Momaday
View Biography of Scott Momaday
View Profile of Scott Momaday
View Photo Gallery of Scott Momaday
|
|
|
Story Musgrave
Dean of American Astronauts
It's a responsibility to have an experience up there, not just to do the doing. Since you are representative of humanity and there's millions that could have done it, it's a responsibility to, number one, have an experience and then get it into a form which does translate that experience and, as poetry works, you can hand over the same emotions. Not only the abstract concepts, but you can bring people to the same emotions which you had up there. And that's a tremendous challenge.
View Interview with Story Musgrave
View Biography of Story Musgrave
View Profile of Story Musgrave
View Photo Gallery of Story Musgrave
|
|
|
Ralph Nader
Consumer Crusader
Ralph Nader: That's what life was all about: the struggle for decency and fairness and opportunity and justice. We were taught that a long time ago that that's what's important in life. It doesn't mean you don't go out and play ball or ride a bicycle or have fun. It means that the reason why you can sit there in a living room in a nice town is because there were people before you who paid some attention to reducing or eliminating injustice in society and we have the same obligation to do that for our and future generations. We were taught that indirectly by our parents and our friends as small children.
View Interview with Ralph Nader
View Biography of Ralph Nader
View Profile of Ralph Nader
View Photo Gallery of Ralph Nader
|
| |
