Famous quotes containing the words based and/or alphabet:
“Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white societywhich is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinementwill be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.”
—Frantz Fanon (19251961)
“I wonder, Mr. Bone man, what youre thinking
of your fury now, gone sour as a sinking whale,
crawling up the alphabet on her own bones.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)