Famous quotes containing the words simple, black and/or dress:
“Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“The dress makes the person; the saddle the horse.”
—Chinese proverb.