The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in o...ur America, they make much better cocktails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and wo...men from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity--an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of al...l men.... This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone to understood. He has never been listened to.... That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So d...oes everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,... Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable w...alls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next (?) [sic] came the fort on George's Island. These are bungling contrivances: not our fortes, but our foibles. Wolfe sailed by... the strongest fort in North America in the dark, and took it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread d...epends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the w...ord describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »