Famous quotes containing the words stone, house and/or brooklyn:
“Converse: Don’t they say that this is where everybody finds out who they are? Huh?
Hicks: Yeah. What a bummer for the gooks.”
—Judith Rascoe, U.S. screenwriter, Robert Stone (b. 1939)
“Then the master said to the slave, Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel people to come in, so that my house may be filled.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:23.
“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American scholar and educator. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (July 27, 1994)