White Bordered Union

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or union:

“I have a dream: in my dream ... Aretha Franklin, in her fabulous black-lipstick “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” outfit, leaps from her seat at Maxim’s and, shouting “Think!,” blasts Lacan, Derrida and Foucault like dishrags against the wall, then leads thousands of freed academic white slaves in a victory parade down the Champs-Elysées.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“She had brought love to the union and he had brought a longing after the flesh.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)