Word: ellisons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN A. WILLIAMS, author of The King God Didn't Save, was born near Jackson, Mississippi, and like fellow black novelist, John O. Killens, began writing while he was a soldier in a jimcrow regiment in the Pacific. Williams, along with Killens, Ellison and others, was strongly influenced by Richard Wright, who was also from Mississippi, and like Wright, Williams has traveled and lived in Africa and Europe. Perhaps it is because of this common background and experience that he has obtained a particular understanding of Wright, and is the author of a perceptive biography of him, The Most Native...
...appear to be so impossible that young guys like Kelley and Reed could ever get together; because Kelley went to Feilston School and Harvard or wherever the hell he went. But that's crap. Kelley is in the same bag with Ishmael Reed, with me, with Baldwin, with Ellison, because we're black. Our problems deal with our approaches to our experiences, the way we can command or demand advances so we can support our families, and these are way out of line with the advances white writers get. Things of this nature...
...interview in the "Paris Review," Ralph Ellison said the search for identity is, "THE American theme. The nature of our society is uch that we are prevented from knowing who we are." Do you agree with that, and do you see any particular reflection of it in the situation of black Americans...
...black people, and maybe only true of black people. You know, we've had a great deal of recent political awareness of ethnic political potential, and I'd say the Jews are a foremost example of awareness of the ethnic limitations and the exercise of that ethnic power. Ellison's statement is mostly true of black people, and I would disagree with his seeming contention that it's a problem for all Americans. It's not. I think that even Indians or Spanish-speaking Americans are more positive of their identity than are we: because they have languages to fall...
...Housing Act, the Government can pay all but 1% of the interest rate on each buyer's mortgage. Typical example: helped by the Government, a family of four with $375 a month pretax income can buy a $15,150 three-bedroom ranch home from Builder Ray Ellison of San Antonio for $200 down and $75 a month, including fire insurance and realty taxes. To buy the same house, a family whose income exceeds the Section 235 limits ($875 a month) would have to stand $600 in down payments plus closing costs, and the monthly payments would...