White Persons Born

Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:

“Full of her long white arms and milky skin
He had a thousand times remembered sin.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“I have been born many times, a false Messiah,
but let me be born again
into something true.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)