Class Iron Crosses

Famous quotes containing the words class, iron and/or crosses:

“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica’s black mass.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)