White Persons Born

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

    Lift my head, help me up,
    I am bruised, bone and flesh;
    chafe my white hands, my servants....
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Dostoevski’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity—all this is difficult to admire.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)