Philadelphia Stars Negro

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

    “All the oxygen of the world was in them.
    All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
    All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
    All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.”
    —Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

    “Had she been worth the blood, the cramped cries, the little stuttering bravado,
    The gradual dulling of those Negro eyes,
    The sudden, overwhelming little-boyness in that barn?”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)