Dead Layer

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or layer:

    “Jefferson Smith: I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I’m dead right or I’m crazy.
    Senator MacPherson: You wouldn’t care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator?”
    —Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)