Red Eyes Black

Famous quotes containing the words red, eyes and/or black:

    Where the slow river
    meets the tide,
    a red swan lifts red wings
    and darker beak.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    [When asked: “Will not woman suffrage make the black woman the political equal of the white woman and does not political equality mean social equality?”:] If it does then men by keeping both white and black women disfranchised have already established social equality!
    Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)