Famous quotes containing the words simple, black and/or dress:
“The real drawback to “the simple life” is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“Quadroon mermaids, Afro angels, black saints
balanced upon the switchblades of that air
and sang.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)