Looking back as an adult on his mother's decision to be a career woman, Nicholas has this to say about Anna L. Bruenn, D.D.S.: " .... . . what really made her such a good parent was the serenity that came from her self-realization as a woman. . . . She knew who she was, she was satisfied with the person she'd made herself into, and therefore she was absolutely unintimidated by how anybody else thought she should live. That was an enormous help to me. It meant she was strong enough to allow me freedom."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career.... I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the kind of Negro that most white people don't know about. They either don't know, or maybe they don't want to know, I'm not ...sure which I mean, just listen to that fella, David Duke, down in Louisiana--the fella that was with the Klan and then he was going to run for president. David Duke doesn't think there are Negroes like me and Sadie, colored folks who have never done nothin' except contribute to America. Well, I'm just as good an American as he is--better! ...I think I'm going to write a letter, and I'm going to say, "Dear Mr. Duke: This is just to set the record straight. I am a Negro woman. I was brought up in a good family. My Papa was a devoted father. I went to college; I paid my own way. I am not stupid. I'm not on welfare. And I'm not scrubbing floors. Especially not yours."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter..., this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground wh...ere only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
D--n me, stranger, ef you can't stay as long as you please, and I'll give you plenty to eat and drink. Play away, stranger, you ki...n sleep on the dry spot tonight!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a... Ph.D.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »