Famous quotes containing the words male and/or ancestor:
“... contemporary black women felt they were asked to choose between a black movement that primarily served the interests of black male patriarchs and a womens movement which primarily served the interests of racist white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“In the core of Gods abysm,
Was a weed of self and schism;
And ever the Daemonic Love
Is the ancestor of wars,
And the parent of remorse.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)