Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 20, 1892 Death: February 22, 1978
Any fear is always worse than the thing itself..
Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest..
if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet….
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real..
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave..
Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done..
At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal..
I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe i….
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it..