Famous quotes containing the words simple, black and/or dress:
“A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Thou, old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)