Gerald Early

(297 votes)   Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Gerald Early
1952-, American Author

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(115 votes)   The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

Gerald Early
1952-, American Author

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(108 votes)   I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.

Gerald Early
1952-, American Author

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(103 votes)   I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball

Gerald Early

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