Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother—the blacker she is the more us she is—and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)
“The field of doom bears death as its harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)