Famous quotes containing the words black and/or women:
“Long sibilant-muscled trees
Were lifting up, the black poplars.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I consider women a great deal superior to men. Men are physically strong, but women are morally better.... It is woman who keeps the world in balance.”
—Mrs. Chalkstone, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882)