Small Black Powder

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

    Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh,
    As Eastern Summers are,
    Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh,
    Add light to some small Star.
    Sir William Davenant (1606–1668)

    I cut my teeth as the black raccoon—
    For implements of battle.
    Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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