Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
    Taught my benighted soul to understand
    That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
    Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
    Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
    “Their color is a diabolic die.”
    Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
    May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
    —Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)

    “You are disdainful and magnificent—
    Your perfect body and your pompous gait,
    Your dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate,”
    —Helene Johnson (b. 1907)

    “A violet by a mossy stone
    Half hidden from the eye!
    Fair as a star, when only one
    Is shining in the sky.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)