Famous quotes containing the words california, black and/or oak:
“But why go to California for a text? She is the child of New England, bred at her own school and church.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American politics, and ... each group suffers when it fails to grasp the dimensions of the other’s struggle.”
—Margaret A. Burnham (b. 1944)
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)