Famous quotes containing the words black and/or thorn:
“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica’s black mass.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man’s bosom.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)