Black Ships Ate

Famous quotes containing the words black, ships and/or ate:

    “I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside
    now take my word for jewel in the open light.”
    —Audre Lorde (b. 1934)

    “Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
    London has swept about you this score years
    And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
    Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
    Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “Light-lashed, self-righteous, above moving snouts,
    the pigs’ eyes followed him, a cheerful stare,
    even to the sow that always ate her young—”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)