James Agee

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, read more

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised read more

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.