the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an infe….

Example is better than precept..

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsens….

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level..

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my ….

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built..

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introdu….

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether..

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hype….

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of peo….

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite..

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipl….

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting ….

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that n….

How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs me….

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it..

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity..

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it..

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justi….

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now ext….

It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's chi….