Small Black Powder

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

    “In the pink light
    the small red sun goes rolling, rolling,
    round and round and round at the same height
    in perpetual sunset,”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a “slave of a slave.””
    —Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)

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