South Sea Pearls

Famous quotes containing the words south, sea and/or pearls:

    “...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”
    —Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

    “It was a soft medicine
    that came from the sea into my mouth,
    moist and plump.
    I swallowed.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Coal-black maidens with pearls in their hair,
    Knee skirts trimmed with the jassamine sweet,
    And bells on their ankles and little black feet.”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)