Black Hills Central

Famous quotes containing the words black, hills and/or central:

“Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)

“As long as green hills are there, never fear a shortage of firewood.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.

Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)