Black Stuff Gown

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

“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

“What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)