Jimmy Carl Black/career - 1960s%e2%80%931990s

Famous quotes containing the words jimmy, carl, black and/or career:

    “Whar have you been for the last three year
    That you haven’t heard folks tell
    How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks
    The night of the Prairie Belle?”
    —John Milton Hay (1838–1905)

    “The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “I’m a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.”
    —William A. Drake (1900–1965)

    “A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)