Philadelphia Stars Negro

Famous quotes containing the words philadelphia, stars and/or negro:

    “I’d like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Cuthbert Twillie (W.C. Fields)

    “The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)