Black Page Drum

Famous quotes containing the words black, page and/or drum:

“There are three kinds of people:
White people, Colored people
and Black people.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)

“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

“Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)