Famous quotes containing the words contemporary and/or era:
“... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a women’s movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)