White River Flows

Famous quotes containing the words white, river and/or flows:

    “I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, Hey, I don’t like white people.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
    —Michele Murray (1933–1974)

    “To be an editor, as I was.
    Then to lie here close by the river over the place
    Where the sewage flows from the village,
    And the empty cans and garbage are dumped,
    And abortions are hidden.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)