I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience.
I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
Language is the dress of thought.
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.