Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or lightening:
“At first I said, I will not bear
His cross upon my back;
He only seeks to place it there
Because my skin is black.”
—Countee Cullen (19031946)
“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
—Frances E. Willard 18391898, U.S. president of the Womens Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Womans Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)