I Have Always Been - I Think

Regarding The Idea Of Race, .. No Agreement Seems To Exist About What Race Means. Race Seems To Embody A Fact As Simple And As Obvious As The Noonday Sun, But If That Is So, Why The Endless Wrangling About The Idea And The Facts Of Race. What Is A Race? How Can It Be Recognized? Who Constitute The Several Races?.

Criticism Will Need An Injection Of Humility That Is, A Recognition Of Its Role As Ancillary To The Arts, Needed Only Occasionally In A Temporary Capacity. Since The Critic Exists Only For Introducing And Explaining, He Must Be Readily Intelligible; He Has No Special Vocabulary: Criticism Is In No Way A Science Or A System.

The Piano Is The Social Instrument Par Excellence... Drawing-room Furniture, A Sign Of Bourgeois Prosperity, The Most Massive Of The Devices By Which The Young Are Tortured In The Name Of Education And The Grown-up In The Name Of Entertainment.

Life Is Given Us As A Passion.

Convince Yourself That You Are Working In Clay, Not Marble, On Paper Not Eternal Bronze: Let That First Sentence Be As Stupid As It Wishes.