Black Bears

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or bears:

“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)

“My slumber broken and my doublet torn,
I find the laurel also bears a thorn.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)