Southern Lights

Famous quotes containing the words southern and/or lights:

    I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous ... as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There in the narrow,
    mote-filled finger of light, is a blonde
    so blonde, so blinding, she is a blizzard, a huge
    spook, and lights up like the sun the audience
    in its galoshes. She bulges like a deuce coupe.
    When we see her we say good-bye to Kansas.
    Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)