Black Corded Silk

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or silk:

“Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as “not black enough.” ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

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