Black Stuff Gown

Famous quotes containing the words black, stuff and/or gown:

    “When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “The wise guys
    tell me
    that Christmas
    is Kid Stuff . . .”
    —Frank Horne (b. 1899)

    “GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
    Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
    And brought Olympian wisdom down
    To court and mar, to gown and town,
    Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
    The open secret of to-day.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)