I have more in common with a Mexican man than with a white woman.... This opinion ... chagrins women who sincerely believe our fem...ale physiology unequivocally binds all women throughout the world, despite the compounded social prejudices that daily affect us all in different ways. Although women everywhere experience life differently from men everywhere, white women are members of a race that has proclaimed itself globally superior for hundreds of years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tony Camonte: Hey, what's all the time bitin' you? You afraid of me? Poppy: Well, that outfit is enough to give anybody the y...ips.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world... Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou owed'st yesterday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and w...hat we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpet...uity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eager...ly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale "crush me and eat me!"Mfor us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, teaplant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poppy that my heart was, formed to bind all mortals,... made to strike and gather hearts like flame upon an altar, fades and shrinks, a red leaf drenched and torn in the cold rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »