Famous quotes containing the words ideal, black and/or body:
“Our ideal ... must be a language as clear as glass—the person looking out of the window knows there is glass there, but he is not concerned with it; what concerns him is what comes through from the other side.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“For all of him dead and
gone and vanished from us, and all of him which
clings to our speech black god of our time.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“Echoes are dull and the body accepts no touch
Except its pain. Mind is a little isle.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)