Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Left are very hesitant to criticize Barack Obama, but that is beginning to change.
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We disagree heavily on abortion with Margot Hentoff.
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I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.
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I can't think of a single area where Barack Obama is not destructive.
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At least they people showed the world we could elect a black president.
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William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.
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Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.
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The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like Barack Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.
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We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
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Søren Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, `You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know then and I've learned since that in an area that means a lot to me, free speech, liberals are as bad as many conservatives in trying to censor speech.
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My father was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
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I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.
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A.J. Muste was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.
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Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
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Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.