Crazy White Man

Famous quotes containing the words white man, crazy, white and/or man:

    The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him,
    Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
    Over the chained bay waters Liberty—
    Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes
    Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    [Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach value and have a right, and which leaves to everyone else the like advantage.
    James Madison (1751–1836)