Perfect Black Body

Famous quotes containing the words perfect, black and/or body:

    “The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.”
    —Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

    “With my whole body I taste these peaches,
    I touch them and smell them. Who speaks?
    I absorb them as the Angevine
    Absorbs Anjou. I see them as a lover sees,
    As a young lover sees the first buds of spring
    And as the black Spaniard plays his guitar.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)