Famous quotes containing the words top and/or leading:
“I cant forget
How she stood at the top of that long marble stair
Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette
Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“We have got to stop the nervous Nellies and the Toms from going to the Mans place. I dont believe in killing, but a good whipping behind the bushes wouldnt hurt them.... These bourgeoisie Negroes arent helping. Its the ghetto Negroes who are leading the way.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (19171977)