Perfect Black Body

Famous quotes containing the words perfect, black and/or body:

    “Trying to be a perfect feminist ... is not really a big improvement on trying to be a perfect wife, mother, and lady.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7 (1980)

    “To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica’s black mass.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.”
    —Haniel Long (1888–1956)