Doris Lessing Quotes
Small things amuse small minds.
In the late 1930's Dwight Eisenhower served as an aide to MacArthur in the Philippines when President Quezon offered to make MacArthur "Grand Marshall of the Philippines" and Eisenhower thought it inappropriate for an American general officer to have such a grandiose title:
He was describing his first face to face encounter with Southern Negro slaves. He was totally shocked as the Negroes he had seen before were mostly free Blacks in the North-—many of whom were educated and cultured. He became an even more avowed abolitionist but like most anti-slavery whites at the time did not see the majority of Blacks as equal. See Abraham Lincoln: {587773}.
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
