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)
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“We are powerless,
dust and powder fill our lungs
our bodies blunder
through doors twisted on hinges.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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