With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: April 10, 1934 Death: April 23, 2007 |
“We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.”
“But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.”