I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. Th...ese women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Left Washington, September 6, on a tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia.... Absent nineteen days. Receive...d every where heartily. The country is again one and united! I am very happy to be able to feel that the course taken has turned out so well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The modern queer was invented by Tennessee Williams. Brando in blue jeans, sneakers, white T-shirt and leather jacket. When you sa...w that, you knew they were available.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; ...nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better o...ne; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then one will say, 'He is not dead, maybe, Who was mortality's unshaken lover... Who loved the spring upon the Tennessee, The hushed fall and, again, the coming clover.' None will recall, not knowing, the twisted roads Where the mind wanders till the heart corrodes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the focal and foremost fire, Our of the hospital walls as dire;... Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen!) Specter! such as you seldom see, Little Giffen, of Tennessee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, ...and Samuel Beckett one--and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, pluck was he to the backbone and clear grit through and through; Boasted and bragged like a trooper; but the big words wou...ldn't do; The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain as plain could be, Worn out by his ride with Morgan up from the Tennessee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »