White Persons Born

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

    “There is no word for time.
    Today we will
    not think to number another summer
    or watch its white bird into the ground.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “We are born with luck
    which is to say with gold in our mouth.
    As new and smooth as a grape,
    as pure as a pond in Alaska,
    as good as the stem of a green bean
    we are born and that ought to be enough....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)