Negro Leagues

Famous quotes containing the words negro and/or leagues:

“I was a fire-breathing Catholic C.O.,
and made my manic statement,
telling off the state and president, and then
sat waiting sentence in the bull pen
beside a Negro boy with curlicues
of marijuana in his hair.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.