White Man Boss

Famous quotes containing the words white man, white, man and/or boss:

“The white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)

“Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“When the boss isn’t strict, the workers aren’t busy.”
—Chinese proverb.