Yellow Man

Famous quotes containing the words yellow man, yellow and/or man:

    Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we—the white race—have become the yellow man’s burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
    Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    He’s made a harp of her breast-bane,
    Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.

    He’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair,
    And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare.
    Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 41–44)

    ‘Speak thy desire, thou only just of men;
    And thou, O woman, only worthy found
    To be with such a man in marriage bound.’
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)