Famous quotes containing the words left, square and/or white:
“What is left after this?
what can death loose in me
after your embrace?
your touch,
your limbs are more terrible
to do me hurt.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“The square dance fiddlers first concern is to carry a tune, but he must carry it loud enough to be heard over the noise of stamping feet, the cries of the caller, and the shouts of the dancers. When he fiddles, he fiddles all over; feet, hands, knees, head, and eyes are all busy.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,a denizen of the woods. The pale white man! I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)