Head Female Guard

Famous quotes containing the words head, female and/or guard:

    “I tied down time with a rope
    but it came back.
    Then
    I put my head in a death bowl
    and my eyes shut up like clams.
    They didn’t come back.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.”
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    “Then the bird
    breaks with his beak the thread
    of dream within him,
    and the tree unrolls
    the shadow that will guard it
    throughout the day.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)