Jim Harrison Quotes
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Harrison, Jim. Conversations with Jim Harrison. Edited by Robert DeMott, University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
As enlightened and progressive that his views on Blacks were, he was amazingly racist when it came to Native Americans. See {588991}.
This view was extremely popular with the White establishment but decried by Du Bois and a few other Black leaders. Unfortunately for African Americans and the rest of the country. Washington in this quotation turned out to be very wrong. Blacks quickly produced all kinds of goods and services that whites wanted, but the Jim Crow culture of the South and much of the North would simply not allow any relations between the races that might diminish the friction. Southerners for over 100 years blamed and resented the Negro for the destruction of the South in the Civil War and trying to act as if he was equal to the whites. And Blacks blamed whites for the century of slavery and then not enforcing the laws and denying them civil rights and equality.
James Harrison was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. He wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism, and published essays on food, travel, and sport. Harrison indicated that, of all his writing, his poetry meant the most to him.:1 He published 24 novellas during his lifetime and is considered "America’s foremost master" of that form. His first commercial success:5 came with the 1979 publication of the trilogy of novellas, Legends of the Fall, two of which were made into movies. Harrison's work has been translated into multiple languages including French, Greek, Chinese, and Russian. He was the recipient of multiple awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969), the Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature (1990), and induction into the American Academy of Arts & Letters (2007). Harrison wrote that "The dream that I could write a good poem, a good novel, or even a good movie for that matter, has devoured my life.":2
