Writing Walker Stone

Famous quotes containing the words writing, walker and/or stone:

    No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
    Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)

    The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)

    Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)