Black Face

Famous quotes containing the words black face, black and/or face:

“Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

“A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him ... as I have ever seen in any man.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)