Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

    To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.... On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
    Stephen Carter (b. 1954)

    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)