Famous quotes containing the words flayed and/or skin:
“you have flayed us
with your blossoms,
spare us the beauty
of fruit-trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“At first I said, “I will not bear
His cross upon my back;
He only seeks to place it there
Because my skin is black.””
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)