Colored Stones Include

Famous quotes containing the words colored, stones and/or include:

    “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “this ant-and stone-swallowing uninjurable
    artichoke which simpletons thought a living fable
    whom the stones had nourished, whereas ants had done
    so.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “At last now you can be
    What the old cannot recall
    And the young long for in dreams,
    Yet still include them all.”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)