People
- Alger Hiss (1904–1996), U.S. State Department employee and a Soviet spy
- Donald Hiss (1906–1989), younger brother of Alger Hiss
- King Hiss, the villainous king of the Snake Men in Mattel toyline Masters of the Universe
- Mike Hiss (born 1941), former driver in the USAC Championship Car series
- Sir Hiss, Prince John's fictional sidekick in the 1973 animated Disney movie Robin
- Hissing Sid
- Yehuda Hiss, chief pathologist at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine
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“The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegated power of course conduces to a better understanding between them. Moreover, I ought not to omit to mention as a useful result of my journeying that I am to visit a great many expositions and fairs, and that the curiosity to see the President will certainly increase the box receipts and tend to rescue many commendable enterprises from financial disaster.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)