Famous quotes containing the words black, rise and/or fall:
“I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.”
—Kristin Hunter (b. 1931)
“May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“That’s the convenient part about a fall guy: once you’ve got him hooked, you’ve always got him hooked.”
—Ketti Frings (1915–1981)