Black Oil Sunflower

Famous quotes containing the words black, oil and/or sunflower:

    “I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.”
    —Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)

    “I bade, because the wick and oil are spent
    And frozen are the channels of the blood....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)