White River Flows

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

    “What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    “There are knives that glitter like altars
    In a dark church
    Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
    To be healed.

    There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
    Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
    —Charles Simic (b. 1938)

    “The truth is the river flows into the canyon
    Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn’t-Concern-Us,
    As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)