Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a tear-filled harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)