"Oh, the stories—those are an amalgam. I don’t think she would’ve defined herself like that, but my mother was a great…"

"To me, they’re the greatest generation. My parents and their friends, to me, have qualities that I don’t have, my chi…"

"The world is always in a turmoil over skin color. The hatred that people feel, I’m not able to articulate it."

"The hunter catches a dreadful prey, the seaman steers his ship into an unspeakable harbor, the plowman sows and reaps…"

"You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege …"

"When Hector heard that challenge he rejoiced and right in the no man's land along his lines he strode, gripping his s…"

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"There exists among us by ordinary — both North and South — a profound conviction that the South is another land, shar…"

"Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extr…"