The Passing of The Great Race/contents

Famous quotes containing the words passing, race and/or contents:

    Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
    William James (1842–1910)

    The whole race is a poet that writes down
    The eccentric propositions of its fate.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Such as boxed
    Their feelings properly, complete to tags
    A box for dark men and a box for Other
    Would often find the contents had been scrambled.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)