The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs... from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up ...this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a... sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »