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Black Quotes - Page 47

I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.

I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

"Ailey's Troupe Explores Its Roots". Interview with Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 1983.

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

"Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

"The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

Speech in Senate during debate on Compromise of 1850, 11 Mar. 1850