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)

    “Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.”
    —bell hooks (b. 1955)

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