Skin Disease

Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or disease:

“At first I said, “I will not bear
His cross upon my back;
He only seeks to place it there
Because my skin is black.””
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)