Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“I was only sitting here in my white study
with the awful black words pushing me around.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“All sailors pause to watch a steamer, and shout in welcome or derision. In one a large Newfoundland dog put his paws on the rail and stood up as high as any of them, and looked as wise. But the skipper, who did not wish to be seen no better employed than a dog, rapped him on the nose and sent him below. Such is human justice!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)