Small Black Powder

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

“There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.”
—Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)

“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)