White River

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or river:

“Joseph and his mother come from the
black kings who were before the white man.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)

“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.

There’s a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped clean—a river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)