Famous quotes containing the words white man, white, man and/or boss:
“Joseph and his mother come from the
black kings who were before the white man.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)
“We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other—male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“When the boss isn’t strict, the workers aren’t busy.”
—Chinese proverb.