Famous quotes containing the words left, square and/or white:
“Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.”
—Marcy. As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, Introduction, by Jane OReilly (1980)
“Rationalists, wearing square hats,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attributea white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)