Black Powder Charge

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

    “For all of him dead and
    gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
    clings to our speech black god of our time.”
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

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

    “One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)