Small Black Powder

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

    “Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
    balanced upon the switchblades of that air
    and sang.”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    “My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....”
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