Famous quotes containing the words black and/or returned:
“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“I was used to yearning for you. After you returned my love, I felt unsettled and vaguely aggrieved.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)