Famous quotes containing the words white and/or black:
“...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)
“I was only sitting here in my white study
with the awful black words pushing me around.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)