Dead Layer

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or layer:

    “Panoramas are not what they used to be.
    Claude has been dead a long time
    And apostrophes are forbidden on the funicular.
    Marx has ruined Nature,
    For the moment.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)