The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general American population having to make any sacrifices. It goes on, and so do we.
If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
[confronting the Tiger tank commander] Big Joe: Look, Mac, you and us? We're just soldiers, right? We don't even know what this war's all about. All we do is we fight and we die and for what? We don't get anything out of it. In about a half an hour t...
If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.
Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy. Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and...
Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who cared nothing for history and loved only cheap land a...
For a brief period of time the American electric-sign industry looked beyond its most immediate market and collaborated with store designers and architects in creating a style which became known as 'stream-line.' Later it became known as 'American D�...
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average, the t...
People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there
He was a writer and words were his weapons.
You sure about this writer thing son?
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.
The truth is that most writers are needy.
Writers are the custodians of memory...
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
