Famous quotes containing the words white, dwarf and/or matter:
“...you don’t have to be as good as white people, you have to be better or the best. When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you’re average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he’d be washing dishes somewhere.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“When I lie down to love,
old dwarf heart shakes her head.
Like an imbecile she was born old.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say “this we know.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)