Famous quotes containing the words simple, black and/or dress:
“We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothingnothing at all.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“An orange on the table,
Your dress on the rug,
And you in my bed,
Sweet present of the present,
Cool of night,
Warmth of my life.”
—Jacques Prévert (19001977)