5 Quotes & Sayings By Clement Alexander Price

Clement Alexander Price (1851-1914) was an American journalist, author, editor, and lecturer. He was associated with many prominent literary figures of the time, including Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, John Hay, and John Galsworthy. While traveling in Italy in 1874, he wrote his first book, The Coming Nation, which was published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1876. He went on to write several works of fiction and nonfiction. He was born in Richmond, Alabama Read more

His father was a native of Georgia who later moved to Alabama to pursue a career as a cotton planter. His mother was born in Virginia but moved to Alabama with her parents at an early age. As a child Price had tuberculosis and lived for some time near Memphis and Memphis State University Hospital where he learned much about human suffering and compassion. His brother Thomas Price became the first president of the American Society for Psychical Research and is considered one of the founders of modern psychical research.

Another brother named John Price also became a translator and writer of fiction and non-fiction books such as A Voice from the Republic of Letters: The Life and Works of Thomas Jefferson (1917). Price began his career as a newspaper editor at age eighteen while attending school at Centre College in Kentucky. In 1873 he traveled to Europe where he remained for two years studying art history at the Louvre and other famous sites and visiting art galleries throughout France and Italy before returning to America to edit newspapers in New York City and San Francisco before moving west again to become editor of the San Francisco "Alta California" newspaper from 1876 to 1879. After leaving that position he returned briefly to New York writing articles for Harper's Weekly as well as other publications such as Scribner's Monthly Magazine before becoming editor of "The Century Magazine" from 1880-1883.

In 1886 he published his first full-length book titled "The Coming Nation" which discussed how immigrants would be responsible for changing America forever. It was never published in England because its views were considered too radical there at that time. Within a year after publication he sold the copyright to Harper & Brothers who printed it for American readers that same year – 1887 – just four years after it had been written – which was very fast publishing considering that books were being published by then that took decades to reach their audience! In 1888 he published another book called "The Soul of the War", an account of life during the

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Notwithstanding the memories of slavery, and in the face poverty, ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation still deeply woven into their lives, the embittered past of blacks was taken onto a much higher plane of intellectual and artistic consideration during the Renaissance. Clement Alexander Price
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It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks. Clement Alexander Price
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Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new. Clement Alexander Price
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We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA. Clement Alexander Price