Famous quotes containing the words central, african and/or states:
“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the worlda coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a slave of a slave.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
“fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organismsomething it is like for the organism.”
—Thomas Nagel (b. 1938)