Negro Leagues

Famous quotes containing the words negro and/or leagues:

“the negro Babo took by succession each Spaniard forward, and asked him whose skeleton that was, and whether, from its whiteness, he should not think it a white’s.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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