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...terms on which the Negro states his aspirations preclude Negro solidarity. Negro spokesmen and Negro publications talk of acceptance, obliterating the distinctions between oneself and other men, being treated like a man and not a Negro. James Wilson has pointed out in Negro Politics how Negro society in the North is shaped toward reliance on white opinion and white pressure groups. And Gunnar Myrdal has concluded that the Negro problem in America is a white problem; that, for better or worse, the Negro's advancement depends on the values and attitudes of white society, since the Negro shares them completely...
...multiple autobiographical method, Lewis says that the several lives serve as a check on each other - the text reveals the consistently human trait of thinking better of oneself than others do. The biggest bone of contention with many critics has rather been with the fact that Lewis "edited and arranged" the material. I cannot agree with those who would see a distortion in his skillful job, however, for there are many spots in the text where the narrative jumps in an unavoidable illogical fashion from one experience to another. Furthermore, he will make the tapes available to any colleague...
...crisis, they emerge as a family that tells us that people are about much more accurately--and of course, movingly--than any social scientist can hope to, if he wishes to remain a professional. The terrifying reality of The Children Sanchez lies in the essential identity these people and oneself; like occasional other human documents, it strikes a chord deep inside one, a chord that sounds even through any academic fiddling one performs in order to keep control...
...this age of giants," said he last week, "it is hard to survive. We could be squeezed out of business by the big monopolies, or we could be offered so much money that it would be ridiculous to refuse. One often wonders if one will be working for oneself by the end of the year...
...later life have their roots in his childhood. Shortly before he died, Redon visited the town where he grew up, and reported, "I have completely understood the origins of the sad art I have created. It is a site for a monastery, an enclosure in which one feels oneself alone-what abandon! It was necessary there to fill one's imagination with the unlikely, for into this exile one had to put something. After all, it may well be that in places most completely deprived of features pleasant to the eye, the spirit and the imagination must take their...