Small Black Powder

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

    “Sweet death, small son, our instrument
    Of immortality,
    Your cries and hungers document
    Our bodily decay.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)

    “A black sun has appeared in the sky of my motherland.”
    —Wuer Kaixi, Chinese student leader. Quoted in Independent (London, June 29, 1989)

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