Classic Race

Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or race:

“For years, they have all been dying
Out, the classic buck-and-wing men”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)

“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)