White Pass Route

Famous quotes containing the words white, pass and/or route:

    “Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ...”
    —June Jordan (b. 1936)

    “if she were lacking all grace
    they’d pass her in silence:
    so it’s not only to say she’s
    a warm hole.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “By a route obscure and lonely,
    Haunted by ill angels only,
    Where an eidolon, named Night,
    On a black throne reigns upright,
    I have reached these lands but newly
    From an ultimate dim Thule—
    From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
    Out of space—out of time.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)