Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “He zigzagged.
    He was a knotted hiss.
    He was an insane hash
    Of rebellious small strengths”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Light thickens, and the crow
    Makes wing to th’ rooky wood.
    Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
    Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)