Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“... the black woman can never forgethowever lukewarm the party may to-day appearthat it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)
“Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. ... Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“Polite conversation is rarely either.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)