Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that 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 (1859–1964)
“How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“It rarely adds anything to say, “In my opinion”Mnot even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)