Famous quotes containing the word knew:
“This is not “writing” at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“We knew their line invincible
because there fell
on them no shiverings
of the white enchantress,
radiant Aphrodite’s spell.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)