Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:
“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like theyre killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. Wed not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
—Spike Lee (b. 1956)
“And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumberd with his hood,
Explaining Metaphysics to the nation
I wish he would explain his Explanation.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boatat ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)