Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or mass:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)