Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
chicago city definitely francisco full grown hustle industrial san
Studs could have grown up in New York, Chicago or any dirty, industrial city full of conflict, hustle and color. He could definitely not have grown up in San Francisco or L.A.
blacks whites
Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.
cars humans pushed room seeing silent standing
I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars.
corpses frozen warm
If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.
friday monday dying
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
inquirers
Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
dare
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.
recognition celebrate
I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
black-and-white journey order
In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
optimism people despair
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
dare paraphrasing
I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.
nice vocabulary use
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
sanity
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
letter society supposed written
Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.