Famous quotes containing the words california, black and/or oak:
“It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I’d ever seen, that California sunshine.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
Nothing but a plain black boy.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)