Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“And my eyes are blue;
So ferry me across the water,
Do, boatman, do!”

“Step into my ferry-boat,
Be they black or blue,”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

“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)