“I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.” GivingSoulMouthsSouthGlassesHypocrisyPocketsSouth AfricaSoapPiratePiousMeannessTowelsChristendom Book:Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers Source: Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
“Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.” SoulBodyLightLandNew YorkSouthShipsGrassCoveredShoreTidesCornManhattanOhioSparklingPrairieHurryingMissouriSpires Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867 Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.” MenDoeSoulRocksEqualDrawsMiracleWestSouthBottomStartingPhrasesSouth AfricaStarting Out Author:Athol Fugard
“Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.” PeopleWantSoulAmericaCertainPlanetsLogicPrisonSouthSuburbsSouth AmericaImmaculateOptimum Author:J. G. Ballard