Kick Failed

Famous quotes containing the words kick and/or failed:

    “I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.
    However I have heard that sometimes you have to deal
    Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
    Or they will haul themselves and you to the trash and the fish beneath.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to redefine race in light of the modern, twenty-first century progress of human kind.”
    —Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)