Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:
“For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.”
—Penelope Leach (20th century)
“Every time I embrace a black woman Im embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Im hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)
“My little bout-town gal has gone
Bout town with powder and blue dye
On her pale lids....”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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