Heathen

Famous quotes containing the word heathen:

“It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, “Know thyself,” and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Quaint, outlandish heathen gods
Black men fashion out of rods,”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“I want to hear the chanting
Around a heathen fire
Of a strange black race.”
—Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)