Famous quotes containing the words flayed and/or skin:
“you have flayed us
with your blossoms,
spare us the beauty
of fruit-trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“If Americans could understand what a painful, searing experience it is when Negro children first begin to realize that the mere color of their skin is to be the source of a lifelong discrimination, it might do more to end our cruelty toward the Negro than all the preaching on justice and equality.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)