Robert Penn Warren Quotes
My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
by giving up raiding and war parties. The Indian nations of America were as diverse as the different peoples of Europe. Many tribes were farmers and cattle raisers. Some tribes traditionally were always engaged in hostilities of war, albeit these were usually small raids or war parties. For a culture where one “became a man” by going on a raid, the idea of a peace treaty with the whites in the area was difficult to accept. Enemy Indian tribes had been removed to other reservations and could not venture out easily. The result was there was no one to raid but the whites. Peace with whites meant no raids, and no raids meant no right of passage. No one could become a war chief if there were no wars. Peace was an enormous cultural inhibitor for some tribes.
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
