“I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to schoo...” — Charles Kuralt Quote

“I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.”

“For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.”

“I'm not any kind of social reformer.”

“Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it.”

“Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.”

“I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.”