Famous quotes containing the words race and/or held:
“A race cannot be purified from without.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“You danced with me never saying a word.
Instead the serpent spoke as you held me close.
The serpent, that mocker, woke up and pressed against me
like a great god and we bent together
like two lonely swans.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)