Small Black Powder

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

    “Sweet death, small son, our instrument
    Of immortality,
    Your cries and hungers document
    Our bodily decay.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
    now take my word for jewel in the open light.”
    —Audre Lorde (b. 1934)

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)