"[Why he is willing to suffer consequences from detractors for his research:] I don't covet what they covet."

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"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 …"

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

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

"With the age-old goal of universal prosperity within sight, we must question whether the methods—technological values…"