Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a tear-filled harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)