Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.
A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and exotic attire attracted the French bon hommes, who were wearing formal ruffs, and who immediately took to the simple and relaxed military cloth tied at the neck.
We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
