Small Black Powder

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

“Her unselfishness came in pretty small packages well wrapped.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas of scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

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