Beak/color

Famous quotes containing the words beak and/or color:

“His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied,

looking for something, something, something.
Poor bird, he is obsessed!”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their color is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
—Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)