Etheridge Knight famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.
But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

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