Black Daisies

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or daisies:

“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)

“they can be both daisies and bruises.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)