Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“Black one, black one,
there was a white
candle in your heart.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)