Small Black Powder

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

    “That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
    Nothing but a plain black boy.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “We are powerless,
    dust and powder fill our lungs
    our bodies blunder
    through doors twisted on hinges.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)