Black Corded Silk

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or silk:

“You can’t be what you don’t see. I didn’t think about being a doctor. I didn’t even think about being a clerk in a store—I’d never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.