Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.... On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
—Stephen Carter (b. 1954)
“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)
“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)