Ideal Black Body

Famous quotes containing the words ideal, black and/or body:

“The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.”
—Gerald Early (20th century)

“For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ’s body in the heavenly light.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)