This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
Rick BraggEvery life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Rick BraggIt is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.
Rick BraggI don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
Rick BraggThe only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.
Rick Bragg