Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“he bowed and
not flinching from her black breath
gave her his arm....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)