Black Diamond (Angie Stone Album)

Famous quotes containing the words black, diamond and/or stone:

“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)

“Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don’t come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don’t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.”
—John Michael Hayes (b.1919)

“She took you the way a woman takes
a bargain dress off the rack
and I broke the way a stone breaks.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)