Black Sailors

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sailors:

“I’m a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.”
—William A. Drake (1900–1965)

“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)