Famous quotes containing the word put:
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)
“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)