Black Jack Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words black, jack and/or brigade:

    The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.
    Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    This is the cat
    That killed the rat
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 7–8)

    Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)