Black Roots

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or roots:

“The body is no body to be seen
But is an eye that studies its black lid.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“A good word is as a good tree—
its roots are firm,
and its branches are in heaven;
it gives its produce every season
by the leave of its Lord.”
—Qur’An. Abraham 14:29-30, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)