I Try To Do What Has Never

In The Middle Of The Next Century, When The Literary Establishment Will Reflect The Multicultural Makeup Of This Country And Not Be Dominated By Assimiliationists With Similar Tastes, From Similar Backgrounds, And Of Similar Pretensions, Langston Hughes Will Be To The Twentieth Century What Walt Whitman Was To The Nineteenth.

The Descendants Of Holy Roman Empire Monarchies Became Feeble-minded In The Twentieth Century, And After World War I Had Been Done In By The Democracies; Some Were Kept On To Entertain The Tourists, Like The One They Have In England.

We Learn About One Another's Culture The Same Way We Learn About Sex: In The Streets.

I Think I Have A Pugnacious Style. My Style Is Not Pretty. I Don't Use Words Like "amber" Or "opaque."

If The British Prose Style Is Churchillian, America Is The Tobacco Auctioneer, The Barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.w., The Traveling Salesman Who Can Sell The World The Brooklyn Bridge Every Day, Can Put Anything Over On You And Convince You That Tomatoes Grow At The South Pole.