Famous quotes containing the words based, stem and/or cell:
“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)
“Bite down
on the bitter stem of your nectared
rose, you know
the dreamy stench of death and fling
magenta shawls delicately
about your brown shoulders laughing.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,
They treated nature as they would.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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