American Tail

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or tail:

    “Of course I’m a black writer.... I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call “literature” is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hassidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”
    —Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

    “And now he comes again with clatter of stone,
    And mounts the wall again with whited eyes
    And all his tail that isn’t hair up straight.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)