Black Powder Charge

Famous quotes containing the words black, powder and/or charge:

“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother—the blacker she is the more us she is—and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)

“Despite my asbestos gloves,
the cough is filling me with black,
and a red powder seeps through my veins....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)