White Persons Born

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

    “The flame o’ th’ taper
    Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,
    To see th’ enclosed lights, now canopied
    Under these windows, white and azure laced
    With blue of heaven’s own tinct.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When three persons are of the same mind, yellow dirt can be turned into gold.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “His awful skin
    stretched out by some tradesman
    is like my skin, here between my fingers,
    a kind of webbing, a kind of frog.
    Surely when first born my face was this tiny
    and before I was born surely I could fly.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)