Black Rats

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or rats:

    “Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
    Nothing but a plain black boy.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “God damn it, father-doctor.
    I’m really thirty-six.
    I see dead rats in the toilet.
    I’m one of the lunatics.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)