The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.