Famous quotes containing the words black women, black and/or women:
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Long sibilant-muscled trees
Were lifting up, the black poplars.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Popularity—The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)