White Persons Born

Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:

    “It was at the time, the place, of nougats.
    There the dogwoods, the white ones and the pink ones,
    Bloomed in sheets, as they bloom, and the girl,
    A pink girl took a white dog walking.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)