Black Widows

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or widows:

“...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)

“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)