North Fair Oaks

Famous quotes containing the words north, fair and/or oaks:

    “The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Curse of the orchard,
    Blemish on the land’s fair countenance,
    I have grown strong for strength denied, for struggle
    In hostile woods. I keep alive by being the troublesome,
    Indestructible
    Stinkweed of truth.”
    —Naomi Long Madgett (b. 1923)

    “He that depends
    Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
    And hews down oaks with rushes.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)