National Primitive Baptist

Famous quotes containing the words national, primitive and/or baptist:

“Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.”
—Edward Fox (b. 1934)

“The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)

“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)