This Is An Important Lesson

“This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache. You can’t have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can’t know what it’s like to feel holy until you know what it’s like to feel really fucking evil. And you can’t be birthed again until you’ve died.” ―Kelly Cutrone

The Family

The family was not simply the sum of the connection created by a large, extended set of relations…a family…was a name, a material and symbolic patrimony, and a form of stakeholding in America… “describing a total lineage, past, present, and future.” –Eric Homberger 

Can you name the book that opens up with this quote, but is not attached to the author of the quote?