Black Country Accent

Famous quotes containing the words black, country and/or accent:

    “Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
    Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
    Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
    I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe.””
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)

    “It is only in the country that we can get to know a fellow-being or a book.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)