Famous quotes containing the words california, black and/or oak:
“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)