Upper Black Eddy

Famous quotes containing the words upper, black and/or eddy:

    “The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m 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)

    “The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)