Black Box Warning

Famous quotes containing the words black, box and/or warning:

    “The token woman carries a bouquet of hothouse celery
    and a stenographer’s pad; she will take
    the minutes, perk the coffee, smile
    like a plastic daisy and put out
    the black cat of her sensuous anger
    to howl on the fence all night.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.... On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
    —Stephen Carter (b. 1954)

    “Tonight I will speak up and interrupt
    your letters, warning you that wars are coming,
    that the Count will die, that you will accept
    your America back to live like a prim thing
    on the farm in Maine.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)