Famous quotes containing the words black and/or plays:
“The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figure’s rightful owner the sum of $5000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?—’No questions will be asked.’”
—John Huston (1906–1987)
“Say that it is the serenade
Of a man that plays a blue guitar.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)