Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or died:
“The “paper tiger” hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)
“So I may say,
“I died of living,
having lived one hour....””
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)