Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.
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At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make good make good...
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The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connectio...
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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
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I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's because many America...
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I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americ...
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Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing...
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American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of 'Western civilization,' the mythical 'Whitetown,' that we learn about ...
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The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the d...
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American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that we learn about ...
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By the time he had hurt his fourth white man Rudolph Reed was dead....
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I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians...and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.
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Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.
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The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
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Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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Man is but a reed, the feeblest one in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him—a vapor, a dr...
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To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.
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The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
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All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.
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But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
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Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.
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They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
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It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
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I tend not to buy into the conventional wisdom that this has so soured relations between the White House and Capitol Hill that we're not going to see things get done.
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They come in at ease and turn the guns in, no questions will be asked. Receive the gift card if that's your incentive for coming in those doors, receiving a gift card, by all means do so. My incentive will be so that another parent will under go the type of pain that we are dealing with.
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We make an effort to run the business like a small company - though we have added to the staff, we have not added to the decision making, ... We talk about everything. But the key for me is to be decisive and focused. None of it is coincidental. People have a lot of autonomy, but I still have to see everything.
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Our defensive intensity was spectacular around the perimeter. We're in the elite eight now and we're playing some good basketball against some good teams.
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