What is desired pitch?

Famous quotes containing the words desired and/or pitch:

    As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
    Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    I can’t earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It’s like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)