Famous quotes containing the word referred:
“Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)