Famous quotes containing the words killing, joke and/or released:
“Mary: Oh, Dan, when is this trouble going to end? This killing and more killing.
Dan: It’s hard on you women, I know. You’re braver than we are.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“the walk liberating, I was released from forms,
from the perpendiculars,
straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds
of thought
into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends
of sight:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)