Local White Grape

Famous quotes containing the words local, white and/or grape:

“In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)

“Victory won’t come

to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till

knotted thirty times,—”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)