Famous quotes containing the words jimmy, carl, black and/or career:
“Whar have you been for the last three year
That you havent heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks
The night of the Prairie Belle?”
—John Milton Hay (18381905)
“The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“Im a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.”
—William A. Drake (19001965)
“A black boxers 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)
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