![I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.](/assets/img/quote-photos/im-with-an-old-family-was-the-euphemism-used-to-dignify-the-professions-of-whit.jpg)
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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. Charles Dickens
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And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay. Chico Hamilton
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. Chiang Kai-shek
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All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high. Dave Chappelle
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massachusetts enough education-funding
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What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death! Arthur Rimbaud
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Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. William Shakespeare
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Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump! Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid. Hattie McDaniel
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The blushing beauties of a modest maid. John Dryden