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

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

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.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.