Male Line Descendants

Famous quotes containing the words male, line and/or descendants:

“What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

“I love them
for finding what
I can’t find,
and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)