Famous quotes containing the words white man, white, man and/or boss:
“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m 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)
“The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may equally be said to have a property in his rights.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)