Famous quotes containing the words black and/or slaves:
“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)