Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or jack:
“Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate,
Keep all you have of queenliness,
Forgetting that you once were slave,
And let your full lips laugh at Fate!”
—Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)
“That is the man all tattered and torn
That kissed the maiden all forlorn”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 29–30)