Black Country Communion

Famous quotes containing the words black, country and/or communion:

    “... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    “It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
    Quaff immortality and joy.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)