Famous quotes containing the words white man, white, man and/or boss:
“White man tells mehunh
Damn yo soul;
White man tells mehunh
Damn yo soul;
Got no need, bebby,
To be tole.”
—Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)
“Child, the current of your breath is six days long.
You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed;
lie, fisted like a snail, so small and strong
at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed
with love.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censurecritics all are ready made.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“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 (18931964)