Upper Layer

Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or layer:

“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)