Famous quotes containing the words lady, wore and/or black:
“Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)