Famous quotes containing the words white, man and/or boss:
“Every time I embrace a black woman Im embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Im hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)
“It were sad to gaze on the blessèd and no man I loved of old there;
I throw down the chain of small stones! when life in my body has ceased,
I will go to Caoilte, and Conan, and Bran, Sceolan, Lomair,
And dwell in the house of the Fenians, be they in flames or at feast.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“I have given my pain a name and call it dogMit is every bit as faithful, every bit as nosey and shameless, every bit as entertaining, every bit as clever as any other dogand I can boss it around and vent my bad moods on it, just as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)