Black Jack Brigade

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

    To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica’s black mass.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    This is the priest all shaven and shorn
    That married the man all tattered and torn
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 37–38)

    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)