Thin White Duke

Famous quotes containing the words thin, white and/or duke:

    “Talent got a bit thin when it came down to me. And the courage, too.”
    —John Osborne (1929–1994)

    “The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
    —Elizabeth Morris (b. c. 1933)

    “For the man who should loose me is dead,
    Fighting with the Duke in Flanders,
    In a pattern called a war.
    Christ! What are patterns for?”
    —Amy Lowell (1874–1925)